CVE-2020-12966

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

AMD EPYC™ Processors contain an information disclosure vulnerability in the Secure Encrypted Virtualization with Encrypted State (SEV-ES) and Secure Encrypted Virtualization with Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP). A local authenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability leading to leaking guest data by the malicious hypervisor.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-200

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Feb 4, 2022
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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