CVE-2025-54506
A time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition in the AMD SEV Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) firmware could allow an attacker with administrative privileges to bypass security checks on scatter lists, potentially resulting in loss of guest integrity.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
A time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition in the AMD SEV Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) firmware could allow an attacker with administrative privileges to bypass security checks on scatter lists, potentially resulting in loss of guest integrity.
- Record
CVE-2025-54506- CVSS 4.0
- 4.0 Medium
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N - Weakness
- CWE-367
- Updated
- 2026-11-10
EUVDEUVD-2025-211294
A time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition in the AMD SEV Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) firmware could allow an attacker with administrative privileges to bypass security checks on scatter lists, potentially resulting in loss of guest integrity.
- Record
EUVD-2025-211294- CVSS 4.0
- 4.0 Medium
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N - Updated
- 2026-11-10
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases, published | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-54506 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.0) in Amd Epyc™ 9005 Series Processors, published November 10, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. No source names a fixed version.