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CVE-2022-23820

Failure to validate the AMD SMM communication buffer may allow an attacker to corrupt the SMRAM...

7.5 High

Failure to validate the AMD SMM communication buffer may allow an attacker to corrupt the SMRAM potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges needed
High
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.70%Up 0.7 points since Nov 15, 2023
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 7.5

Failure to validate the AMD SMM communication buffer may allow an attacker to corrupt the SMRAM potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

Record
CVE-2022-23820
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-28749 7.5

Failure to validate the AMD SMM communication buffer may allow an attacker to corrupt the SMRAM potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

Record
EUVD-2022-28749
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-9fmg-2fcx-q3vf 9.8

Failure to validate the AMD SMM communication buffer may allow an attacker to corrupt the SMRAM...

Failure to validate the AMD SMM communication buffer may allow an attacker to corrupt the SMRAM potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

Record
GHSA-9fmg-2fcx-q3vf
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-20
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 7.5

Failure to validate the AMD SMM communication buffer may allow an attacker to corrupt the SMRAM potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

Record
CVE-2022-23820
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-20
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:13475-1 No score

kernel-firmware-all-20231128-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the kernel-firmware-all-20231128-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:13475-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2025:14772-1 No score

kernel-firmware-ath12k-20250206-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the kernel-firmware-ath12k-20250206-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2025:14772-1
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVSUSE-SU-2023:4654-1 No score

Security update for kernel-firmware

This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues:

Update AMD ucode to 20231030 (bsc#1215831):

  • CVE-2022-23820: Failure to validate the AMD SMM communication buffer may allow an attacker to corrupt the SMRAM potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2021-46774: Insufficient input validation in ABL may enable a privileged attacker to perform arbitrary DRAM writes, potentially resulting in code execution and privilege escalation.
  • CVE-2023-20533: Insufficient DRAM address validation in System Management Unit (SMU) may allow an attacker using DMA to read/write from/to invalid DRAM address potentially resulting in denial-of-service. 0 CVE-2023-20519: A Use-After-Free vulnerability in the management of an SNP guest context page may allow a malicious hypervisor to masquerade as the guest's migration agent resulting in a potential loss of guest integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20566: Improper address validation in ASP with SNP enabled may potentially allow an attacker to compromise guest memory integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20521: TOCTOU in the ASP Bootloader may allow an attacker with physical access to tamper with SPI ROM records after memory content verification, potentially leading to loss of confidentiality or a denial of service.
  • CVE-2021-46766: Improper clearing of sensitive data in the ASP Bootloader may expose secret keys to a privileged attacker accessing ASP SRAM, potentially leading to a loss of confidentiality.
  • CVE-2022-23830: SMM configuration may not be immutable, as intended, when SNP is enabled resulting in a potential limited loss of guest memory integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20526: Insufficient input validation in the ASP Bootloader may enable a privileged attacker with physical access to expose the contents of ASP memory potentially leading to a loss of confidentiality.
  • CVE-2021-26345: Failure to validate the value in APCB may allow an attacker with physical access to tamper with the APCB token to force an out-of-bounds memory read potentially resulting in a denial of service.
  • CVE-2023-20592: Issue with INVD instruction aka CacheWarpAttack (bsc#1215823).
Record
SUSE-SU-2023:4654-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2023:4655-1 No score

Security update for kernel-firmware

This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues:

Update AMD ucode to 20231030 (bsc#1215831):

  • CVE-2022-23820: Failure to validate the AMD SMM communication buffer may allow an attacker to corrupt the SMRAM potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2021-46774: Insufficient input validation in ABL may enable a privileged attacker to perform arbitrary DRAM writes, potentially resulting in code execution and privilege escalation.
  • CVE-2023-20533: Insufficient DRAM address validation in System Management Unit (SMU) may allow an attacker using DMA to read/write from/to invalid DRAM address potentially resulting in denial-of-service. 0 CVE-2023-20519: A Use-After-Free vulnerability in the management of an SNP guest context page may allow a malicious hypervisor to masquerade as the guest's migration agent resulting in a potential loss of guest integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20566: Improper address validation in ASP with SNP enabled may potentially allow an attacker to compromise guest memory integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20521: TOCTOU in the ASP Bootloader may allow an attacker with physical access to tamper with SPI ROM records after memory content verification, potentially leading to loss of confidentiality or a denial of service.
  • CVE-2021-46766: Improper clearing of sensitive data in the ASP Bootloader may expose secret keys to a privileged attacker accessing ASP SRAM, potentially leading to a loss of confidentiality.
  • CVE-2022-23830: SMM configuration may not be immutable, as intended, when SNP is enabled resulting in a potential limited loss of guest memory integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20526: Insufficient input validation in the ASP Bootloader may enable a privileged attacker with physical access to expose the contents of ASP memory potentially leading to a loss of confidentiality.
  • CVE-2021-26345: Failure to validate the value in APCB may allow an attacker with physical access to tamper with the APCB token to force an out-of-bounds memory read potentially resulting in a denial of service.
  • CVE-2023-20592: Issue with INVD instruction aka CacheWarpAttack (bsc#1215823).
Record
SUSE-SU-2023:4655-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2023:4660-1 No score

Security update for kernel-firmware

This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues:

Update AMD ucode to 20231030 (bsc#1215831):

  • CVE-2022-23820: Failure to validate the AMD SMM communication buffer may allow an attacker to corrupt the SMRAM potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2021-46774: Insufficient input validation in ABL may enable a privileged attacker to perform arbitrary DRAM writes, potentially resulting in code execution and privilege escalation.
  • CVE-2023-20533: Insufficient DRAM address validation in System Management Unit (SMU) may allow an attacker using DMA to read/write from/to invalid DRAM address potentially resulting in denial-of-service. 0 CVE-2023-20519: A Use-After-Free vulnerability in the management of an SNP guest context page may allow a malicious hypervisor to masquerade as the guest's migration agent resulting in a potential loss of guest integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20566: Improper address validation in ASP with SNP enabled may potentially allow an attacker to compromise guest memory integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20521: TOCTOU in the ASP Bootloader may allow an attacker with physical access to tamper with SPI ROM records after memory content verification, potentially leading to loss of confidentiality or a denial of service.
  • CVE-2021-46766: Improper clearing of sensitive data in the ASP Bootloader may expose secret keys to a privileged attacker accessing ASP SRAM, potentially leading to a loss of confidentiality.
  • CVE-2022-23830: SMM configuration may not be immutable, as intended, when SNP is enabled resulting in a potential limited loss of guest memory integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20526: Insufficient input validation in the ASP Bootloader may enable a privileged attacker with physical access to expose the contents of ASP memory potentially leading to a loss of confidentiality.
  • CVE-2021-26345: Failure to validate the value in APCB may allow an attacker with physical access to tamper with the APCB token to force an out-of-bounds memory read potentially resulting in a denial of service.
  • CVE-2023-20592: Issue with INVD instruction aka CacheWarpAttack (bsc#1215823).
Record
SUSE-SU-2023:4660-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2023:4664-1 No score

Security update for kernel-firmware

This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues:

Update AMD ucode to 20231030 (bsc#1215831):

  • CVE-2022-23820: Failure to validate the AMD SMM communication buffer may allow an attacker to corrupt the SMRAM potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2021-46774: Insufficient input validation in ABL may enable a privileged attacker to perform arbitrary DRAM writes, potentially resulting in code execution and privilege escalation.
  • CVE-2023-20533: Insufficient DRAM address validation in System Management Unit (SMU) may allow an attacker using DMA to read/write from/to invalid DRAM address potentially resulting in denial-of-service. 0 CVE-2023-20519: A Use-After-Free vulnerability in the management of an SNP guest context page may allow a malicious hypervisor to masquerade as the guest's migration agent resulting in a potential loss of guest integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20566: Improper address validation in ASP with SNP enabled may potentially allow an attacker to compromise guest memory integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20521: TOCTOU in the ASP Bootloader may allow an attacker with physical access to tamper with SPI ROM records after memory content verification, potentially leading to loss of confidentiality or a denial of service.
  • CVE-2021-46766: Improper clearing of sensitive data in the ASP Bootloader may expose secret keys to a privileged attacker accessing ASP SRAM, potentially leading to a loss of confidentiality.
  • CVE-2022-23830: SMM configuration may not be immutable, as intended, when SNP is enabled resulting in a potential limited loss of guest memory integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20526: Insufficient input validation in the ASP Bootloader may enable a privileged attacker with physical access to expose the contents of ASP memory potentially leading to a loss of confidentiality.
  • CVE-2021-26345: Failure to validate the value in APCB may allow an attacker with physical access to tamper with the APCB token to force an out-of-bounds memory read potentially resulting in a denial of service.
  • CVE-2023-20592: Issue with INVD instruction aka CacheWarpAttack (bsc#1215823).
Record
SUSE-SU-2023:4664-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2023:4665-1 No score

Security update for kernel-firmware

This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues:

Update AMD ucode to 20231030 (bsc#1215831):

  • CVE-2022-23820: Failure to validate the AMD SMM communication buffer may allow an attacker to corrupt the SMRAM potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2021-46774: Insufficient input validation in ABL may enable a privileged attacker to perform arbitrary DRAM writes, potentially resulting in code execution and privilege escalation.
  • CVE-2023-20533: Insufficient DRAM address validation in System Management Unit (SMU) may allow an attacker using DMA to read/write from/to invalid DRAM address potentially resulting in denial-of-service. 0 CVE-2023-20519: A Use-After-Free vulnerability in the management of an SNP guest context page may allow a malicious hypervisor to masquerade as the guest's migration agent resulting in a potential loss of guest integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20566: Improper address validation in ASP with SNP enabled may potentially allow an attacker to compromise guest memory integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20521: TOCTOU in the ASP Bootloader may allow an attacker with physical access to tamper with SPI ROM records after memory content verification, potentially leading to loss of confidentiality or a denial of service.
  • CVE-2021-46766: Improper clearing of sensitive data in the ASP Bootloader may expose secret keys to a privileged attacker accessing ASP SRAM, potentially leading to a loss of confidentiality.
  • CVE-2022-23830: SMM configuration may not be immutable, as intended, when SNP is enabled resulting in a potential limited loss of guest memory integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20526: Insufficient input validation in the ASP Bootloader may enable a privileged attacker with physical access to expose the contents of ASP memory potentially leading to a loss of confidentiality.
  • CVE-2021-26345: Failure to validate the value in APCB may allow an attacker with physical access to tamper with the APCB token to force an out-of-bounds memory read potentially resulting in a denial of service.
  • CVE-2023-20592: Issue with INVD instruction aka CacheWarpAttack (bsc#1215823).
Record
SUSE-SU-2023:4665-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2024:2376-1 No score

Security update for kernel-firmware

This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues:

Update AMD ucode to 20231030 (bsc#1215831):

  • CVE-2022-23820: Failure to validate the AMD SMM communication buffer may allow an attacker to corrupt the SMRAM potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.
  • CVE-2021-46774: Insufficient input validation in ABL may enable a privileged attacker to perform arbitrary DRAM writes, potentially resulting in code execution and privilege escalation.
  • CVE-2023-20533: Insufficient DRAM address validation in System Management Unit (SMU) may allow an attacker using DMA to read/write from/to invalid DRAM address potentially resulting in denial-of-service. 0 CVE-2023-20519: A Use-After-Free vulnerability in the management of an SNP guest context page may allow a malicious hypervisor to masquerade as the guest's migration agent resulting in a potential loss of guest integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20566: Improper address validation in ASP with SNP enabled may potentially allow an attacker to compromise guest memory integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20521: TOCTOU in the ASP Bootloader may allow an attacker with physical access to tamper with SPI ROM records after memory content verification, potentially leading to loss of confidentiality or a denial of service.
  • CVE-2021-46766: Improper clearing of sensitive data in the ASP Bootloader may expose secret keys to a privileged attacker accessing ASP SRAM, potentially leading to a loss of confidentiality.
  • CVE-2022-23830: SMM configuration may not be immutable, as intended, when SNP is enabled resulting in a potential limited loss of guest memory integrity.
  • CVE-2023-20526: Insufficient input validation in the ASP Bootloader may enable a privileged attacker with physical access to expose the contents of ASP memory potentially leading to a loss of confidentiality.
  • CVE-2021-26345: Failure to validate the value in APCB may allow an attacker with physical access to tamper with the APCB token to force an out-of-bounds memory read potentially resulting in a denial of service.
  • CVE-2023-20592: Issue with INVD instruction aka CacheWarpAttack (bsc#1215823).
Record
SUSE-SU-2024:2376-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

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Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20210208-150300.4.19.1
20210208-150300.4.19.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20210208-150300.4.19.1
20210208-150300.4.19.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20210208-150300.4.19.1
20210208-150300.4.19.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20210208-150300.4.19.1
20210208-150300.4.19.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20210208-150300.4.19.1
20210208-150300.4.19.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20210208-150300.4.19.1
20210208-150300.4.19.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Enterprise Storage 7.1
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20210208-150300.4.19.1
20210208-150300.4.19.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20190618-5.34.1
20190618-5.34.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20190618-5.34.1
20190618-5.34.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20230724-150500.3.9.1
20230724-150500.3.9.1
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP5
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20230724-150500.3.9.1
20230724-150500.3.9.1
kernel-firmware
openSUSE:Leap 15.5
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20230724-150500.3.9.1
20230724-150500.3.9.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20220509-150400.4.25.1
20220509-150400.4.25.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20220509-150400.4.25.1
20220509-150400.4.25.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP4
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20220509-150400.4.25.1
20220509-150400.4.25.1
kernel-firmware
openSUSE:Leap Micro 5.3
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20220509-150400.4.25.1
20220509-150400.4.25.1
kernel-firmware
openSUSE:Leap Micro 5.4
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20220509-150400.4.25.1
20220509-150400.4.25.1
kernel-firmware
openSUSE:Leap 15.4
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20220509-150400.4.25.1
20220509-150400.4.25.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20200107-150100.3.40.1
20200107-150100.3.40.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20200107-150100.3.40.1
20200107-150100.3.40.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20200107-150100.3.40.1
20200107-150100.3.40.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20200107-150100.3.40.1
20200107-150100.3.40.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20200107-150100.3.40.1
20200107-150100.3.40.1
kernel-firmware
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
before 20200107-150100.3.40.1
20200107-150100.3.40.1
kernel-firmware
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 20231128-1.1
20231128-1.1
kernel-firmware-ath12k
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 15 CVEs
before 20250206-1.1
20250206-1.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliases, publishedEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2022-23820 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Amd 3rd Gen Amd Epyc™ Processors, published November 14, 2023. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.70%, the 53rd percentile. No source names a fixed version.

References

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