CVE-2018-8936 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability within the Platform Security Processor (PSP) of AMD EPYC Server, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, and Ryzen Mobile processors. With a CVSS score of 9.0 (Critical), this vulnerability allows for remote, unauthenticated attacks with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, despite requiring high attack complexity. While there is no known active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness and potential interest.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:amd:ryzen_mobile_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
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:epyc_server_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.