Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-8935 - Unspecified vulnerability in AMD Ryzen Firmware and Ryzen PRO Firmware

047910
CVSS 9.0 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
high complexity
amd
critical

Summary

The Promontory chipset, as used in AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Pro platforms, has a backdoor in the ASIC, aka CHIMERA-HW.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Amd
2
Hardware
Amd
2