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CVE-2023-20579: Improper Access Control in the AMD SPI protection feature may allow a user with Ring0 (kernel mode) privileged access to bypass protections

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 24/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.16% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Improper Access Control in the AMD SPI protection feature may allow a user with Ring0 (kernel mode) privileged access to bypass protections potentially resulting in loss of integrity and availability.

MediumCVSS 6.0 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Feb 13, 2024
Updated
Sep 2, 2026
EPSS
0.1% · 5th percentile

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Action score

24

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
24 / 40 · 6.0 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Affected systems

Is your version affected?

Pick the product and type the version you run. It's compared with this record's version ranges in your browser; the version isn't sent anywhere.

VendorProduct
amdryzen 7 5700g firmware
amdryzen 7 5700g
amdryzen 7 5700ge firmware
amdryzen 7 5700ge
amdryzen 5 5600g firmware
amdryzen 5 5600g
amdryzen 5 5600gt firmware
amdryzen 5 5600gt
amdryzen 5 5600ge firmware
amdryzen 5 5600ge
amdryzen 5 5500gt firmware
amdryzen 5 5500gt

and 188 more

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • amd ryzen 3 3200u firmwarebefore cezannepi-fp6_1.0.1.0
  • amd ryzen 3 3250c firmwarebefore cezannepi-fp6_1.0.1.0
  • amd ryzen 3 3250u firmwarebefore cezannepi-fp6_1.0.1.0
  • amd ryzen 3 3300u firmwarebefore cezannepi-fp6_1.0.1.0
  • amd ryzen 3 3350u firmwarebefore cezannepi-fp6_1.0.1.0
  • amd ryzen 3 4300g firmwarebefore comboam4v2pi_1.2.0.c
  • amd ryzen 3 4300ge firmwarebefore comboam4v2pi_1.2.0.c
  • amd ryzen 3 4300u firmwarebefore renoirpi-fp6_1.0.0.d
  • amd ryzen 3 5125c firmwarebefore cezannepi-fp6_1.0.1.0
  • amd ryzen 3 5300g firmwarebefore comboam4v2pi_1.2.0.c
  • amd ryzen 3 5300ge firmwarebefore comboam4v2pi_1.2.0.c
  • amd ryzen 3 5400u firmwarebefore cezannepi-fp6_1.0.1.0
  • amd ryzen 3 5425c firmwarebefore cezannepi-fp6_1.0.1.0
  • amd ryzen 3 5425u firmwarebefore cezannepi-fp6_1.0.1.0
  • amd ryzen 3 7320u firmwarebefore mendocinopi-ft6_1.0.0.6
  • amd ryzen 3 7335u firmwarebefore rembrandtpi-fp7_1.0.0.a
  • amd ryzen 3 7440u firmwarebefore phoenixpi-fp8-fp7_1.1.0.0
  • amd ryzen 5 3450u firmwarebefore cezannepi-fp6_1.0.1.0
  • amd ryzen 5 3500c firmwarebefore cezannepi-fp6_1.0.1.0
  • amd ryzen 5 3500u firmwarebefore cezannepi-fp6_1.0.1.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (AMD). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 3000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics

    • variousaffected

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 4000 Series Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Graphics

    • variousaffected

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 4000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics

    • variousaffected

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Desktop Processor with Radeon™ Graphics

    • variousaffected

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics

    • variousaffected

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics

    • variousaffected

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

    • variousaffected

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 7000 Series Desktop Processor

    • Variousaffected

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

    • variousaffected

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

    • variousaffected

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics

    • various, variousaffected

  • AMD AMD Ryzen™ 7045 Series Mobile Processors

    • variousaffected

Same product

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    39Monitor
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    35Monitor
  • CVE-2023-20558 Insufficient control flow management in AmdCpmOemSmm may allow a privileged attacker to tamper with the SMM handler potentially leading to
    35Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2021-26382Jul 14, 2022 · An attacker with root account privileges can load any legitimately signed firmware image into the Audio Co-Processor (ACP,) irrespective of
    17Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2021-26384Jul 14, 2022 · A malformed SMI (System Management Interface) command may allow an attacker to establish a corrupted SMI Trigger Info data structure, potent
    31Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2021-46758Nov 14, 2023 · Insufficient validation of SPI flash addresses in the ASP (AMD Secure Processor) bootloader may allow an attacker to read data in memory map
    24Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • Administrator privileges are required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-284 · Improper Access Control

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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