Secret-key disclosure via uncleared bootloader SRAM
Published Nov 14, 2023 · Updated Aug 4, 2024
Improper cleanup in the AMD Secure Processor bootloader on affected AMD processors allows local privileged users to read secret keys from ASP SRAM. The bootloader fails to erase sensitive key material from its SRAM after use, leaving residual secrets available through later privileged memory access. Exploitation requires local high privileges and high-complexity access to ASP SRAM; the reported consequence is confidentiality loss only.
Summary
What happened
Improper cleanup in the AMD Secure Processor bootloader on affected AMD processors allows local privileged users to read secret keys from ASP SRAM. The bootloader fails to erase sensitive key material from its SRAM after use, leaving residual secrets available through later privileged memory access. Exploitation requires local high privileges and high-complexity access to ASP SRAM; the reported consequence is confidentiality loss only.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-46766
- Published
- Nov 14, 2023
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Vendor
- AMD
- Product
- 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors
- Classifications
- CWE-459, T1552.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
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- Nov 14, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 4, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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