CVE-2018-8935 describes a critical hardware backdoor, dubbed CHIMERA-HW, present in the Promontory chipset used in AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Pro platforms. With a CVSS score of 9.0 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability allows for remote, unauthenticated attacks with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, despite high attack complexity. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating potential interest.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:amd:ryzen_pro_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:amd:ryzen_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.4 Reddit, 1.1 Bluesky, 0.8 Mastodon, and 2.3 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.8 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.