CVE-2020-12988
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 1.0%
exploitation probability
1.0%top 38% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In short
A flaw in the device's chipset can cause the system to freeze or become unresponsive when restarted. An attacker could exploit this to make the device unavailable until manually fixed.
Technical detail
A DoS vulnerability in the integrated chipset allows an attacker to trigger a system hang during the reboot process. The attack requires the ability to initiate or influence system restart conditions; successful exploitation results in system unavailability until manual intervention.
Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
A potential denial of service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the integrated chipset that may allow a malicious attacker to hang the system when it is rebooted.
Affected products
AMD · 1st/2nd/3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors