CVSS 4.0
4.0 mediumCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:NCVE-2025-54506
Medium (4.0) in amd.
A time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition in the AMD SEV Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) firmware could allow an attacker with administrative privileges to bypass security checks on scatter lists, potentially resulting in loss of guest integrity.
Severity
- CWE
- CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
- Published
- Assigned by
- AMD (CNA)
- NVD analysis
- Not in the NVD yet
- Record from
- the CVE List, synced
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Affected
- amd:amd epyc™ 9005 series processors
- amd:amd epyc™ embedded 9005 series processors
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- CAPEC-27 Leveraging Race Conditions via Symbolic Links Likelihood: Medium · Severity: High
- CAPEC-29 Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions Likelihood: High · Severity: High
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