CVE-2023-20589 — An attacker with specialized hardware and physical access to an impacted device

An attacker with specialized hardware and physical access to an impacted device may be able to perform a voltage fault injection attack resulting in compromise of the ASP secure boot potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

01What is this vulnerability?

An attacker with specialized hardware and physical access to an impacted device may be able to perform a voltage fault injection attack resulting in compromise of the ASP secure boot potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
AMD	Ryzen™ 3000 Series Desktop Processors	various
AMD	Ryzen™ PRO 3000 Series Desktop Processors	various
AMD	Ryzen™ 3000 Series Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Graphics	various
AMD	Ryzen™ PRO 3000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics	various
AMD	Athlon™ 3000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics	various
AMD	Athlon™ PRO 3000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics	various
AMD	Ryzen™ 4000 Series Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Graphics	various
AMD	Ryzen™ PRO 4000 Series Desktop Processors	various
AMD	Ryzen™ 5000 Series Desktop Processors	various
AMD	Ryzen™ 5000 Series Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Graphics	various
—	/ Ryzen™ PRO 5000 Series Desktop Processors — various	—
AMD	Ryzen™ Threadripper™ 2000 Series Processors	various
AMD	Ryzen™ Threadripper™ 5000 Series Processors	various
AMD	Ryzen™ Threadripper™ 3000 Series Processors	various
AMD	Athlon™ 3000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics	various
AMD	Ryzen™ 5000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics	various
AMD	Ryzen™ PRO 5000 Series Processors	various
AMD	Ryzen™ 6000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics	various
AMD	Ryzen™ PRO 6000 Series Processors	various
AMD	Ryzen™ 7020 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics	various
AMD	Ryzen™ 7030 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics	various
AMD	Ryzen™ PRO 7030 Series Processors	various
AMD	Ryzen™ 7035 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics	various

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-08-08T17:04:17.854Z
• Last modified: 2024-11-13T15:59:15.464Z

09References

• www.amd.com — https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security/bulletin/AMD-SB-4005