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CVE-2023-20578

A TOCTOU (Time-Of-Check-Time-Of-Use) in SMM may allow an attacker with ring0 privileges and access to the BIOS menu or UEFI shell to modify

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None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

A TOCTOU (Time-Of-Check-Time-Of-Use) in SMM may allow an attacker with ring0 privileges and access to the BIOS menu or UEFI shell to modify the communications buffer potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • PI

    Version range not reported

  • AMD AMD EPYC™ 7002 Processors

    Version range not reported

  • AMD AMD EPYC™ 7003 Processors

    Version range not reported

  • AMD AMD EPYC™ 9004 Processors

    Version range not reported

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 7000 Series Desktop Processors

    Version range not reported

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 5000WX Processors

    Version range not reported

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 7020 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics

    Version range not reported

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 6000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics

    Version range not reported

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 7035 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics

    Version range not reported

  • AMD AMD EPYC™ Embedded 3000

    Version range not reported

  • AMD AMD EPYC™ Embedded 7002

    Version range not reported

  • AMD AMD EPYC™ Embedded 7003

    Version range not reported

  • AMD AMD EPYC™ Embedded 9003

    Version range not reported

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ Embedded 7000

    Version range not reported

  • AMD AMD RyzenTM Embedded V3000

    Version range not reported

References 1

amd.com