CVE-2020-12961
A potential vulnerability exists in AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) that may allow an attacker to zero any privileged register on the System Management Network which may lead to bypassing SPI ROM protections.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.25%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A potential vulnerability exists in AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) that may allow an attacker to zero any privileged register on the System Management Network which may lead to bypassing SPI ROM protections.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.25% probability · 16th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- amd/epyc 7003 firmware · amd/epyc 7002 firmware · amd/epyc 72f3 firmware · amd/epyc 7313 firmware · amd/epyc 7313p firmware · amd/epyc 7343 firmware · amd/epyc 73f3 firmware · amd/epyc 7413 firmware · amd/epyc 7443 firmware · amd/epyc 7443p firmware · amd/epyc 7453 firmware · amd/epyc 74f3 firmware · amd/epyc 7513 firmware · amd/epyc 7543 firmware · amd/epyc 7543p firmware · amd/epyc 75f3 firmware · amd/epyc 7643 firmware · amd/epyc 7663 firmware · amd/epyc 7713 firmware · amd/epyc 7713p firmware · +25 more
- Source
- psirt@amd.com
EPSS 0.2% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.