Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-20525

Medium

Published: 11 January 2023

Published
11 January 2023
Modified
07 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0030 54.0th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-20525 is a medium-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Amd Epyc 7H12 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 46.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Insufficient syscall input validation in the ASP Bootloader may allow a privileged attacker to read memory outside the bounds of a mapped register potentially leading to a denial of service.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

amd
epyc 7h12 firmware
≤ romepi_100d
amd
epyc 7f72 firmware
≤ romepi_100d
amd
epyc 7f52 firmware
≤ romepi_100d
amd
epyc 7f32 firmware
≤ romepi_100d
amd
epyc 7742 firmware
≤ romepi_100d
amd
epyc 7702p firmware
≤ romepi_100d
amd
epyc 7702 firmware
≤ romepi_100d
amd
epyc 7662 firmware
≤ romepi_100d
amd
epyc 7642 firmware
≤ romepi_100d
amd
epyc 7552 firmware
≤ romepi_100d
+40 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.

addresses: CWE-20

Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.

addresses: CWE-20

Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.

References