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Fencer Vulns
high 8.2

CVE-2022-23829 json

A potential weakness in AMD SPI protection features may allow a malicious attacker with Ring0 (kernel mode) access to bypass the native Sys…

published 2024-06-18 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-28758

cvss
8.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 9%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A potential weakness in AMD SPI protection features may allow a malicious attacker with Ring0 (kernel mode) access to bypass the native System Management Mode (SMM) ROM protections.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-23829 updated cvss 8.2

hw: amd: SPI protection feature may result in a potential arbitrary code execution.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO Processors 5900 WX-Series
  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 6000 Series Mobile Processors and Workstations
  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 7000 Series Desktop Processors
  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Mobile Processors
  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Desktop Processors
  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics
  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 3000 Series Desktop Processors
  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 4000 Series Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Graphics
  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 4000 Series Mobile Processors
  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 3000 Series Mobile Processor / 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen™ Mobile Processor with Radeon™ Graphics
  • AMD AMD Athlon™ 3000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics
  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO Processor
  • AMD 1st Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors
  • AMD 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors
  • AMD 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors
  • AMD AMD EPYC™ Embedded 3000
  • AMD AMD EPYC (TM) Embedded 7002
  • AMD AMD EPYC™ Embedded 7003
  • AMD AMD RyzenTM Embedded R1000
  • AMD AMD RyzenTM Embedded R2000
  • AMD AMD RyzenTM Embedded 5000
  • AMD AMD RyzenTM Embedded V1000
  • AMD AMD RyzenTM Embedded V2000
  • AMD AMD RyzenTM Embedded V3000
  • amd ryzen_threadripper_pro_5995wx
  • amd ryzen_6980hx

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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