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CVE-2023-20592

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-20592, also known as CacheWarp, is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting certain AMD CPUs. It stems from improper handling of the INVD instruction, allowing a malicious hypervisor to manipulate cache line write-back behavior, potentially compromising the memory integrity of guest virtual machines. The attack vector is network-based with low complexity, requiring low privileges, and could lead to a high impact on integrity (CVSS 6.5). While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness and potential future interest from threat actors.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:amd:epyc_7001_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:amd:epyc_7251_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:amd:epyc_7261_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:amd:epyc_7281_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:amd:epyc_7301_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.02%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
59.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0102 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 21,977 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: linux-firmware-0:20200421-82.git78c0348.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Advanced Update Support(Disable again in 2026 - SPRHEL-7118)Fixed in: linux-firmware-0:20180911-69.3.git85c5d90.el7_6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: linux-firmware-0:20190429-75.gitddde598.el7_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: linux-firmware-0:20240111-121.gitb3132c18.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: linux-firmware-0:20240419-102.git055dfa8e.el8_2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update SupportFixed in: linux-firmware-0:20220210-114.git6342082c.el8_6
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: linux-firmware
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: linux-firmware

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-20592Moderate

hw: amd: INVD instruction may lead to a loss of SEV-ES guest machine memory integrity problem

Nov 14, 2023

References

amd.com / en/corporate/product-security/bulletin/AMD-SB-3005
Vendor Advisory