What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-9836

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-06-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-327

Description

Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) on Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Platform Security Processor (PSP; aka AMD Secure Processor or AMD-SP) 0.17 build 11 and earlier has an insecure cryptographic implementation.

Affected products

• AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization Firmware: through 0.17b11
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00032.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153436/AMD-Secure-Encrypted-Virtualization-SEV-Key-Recovery.html
• https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/46
• https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03943en_us
• https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00032.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153436/AMD-Secure-Encrypted-Virtualization-SEV-Key-Recovery.html
• https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/46
• https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03943en_us
• https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security

Get alerted when CVE-2019-9836 or the next vulnerability affects your stack