{"id":205790,"date":"2025-02-07T03:11:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/amd-fixes-bug-that-lets-hackers-load-malicious-microcode-patches"},"modified":"2025-02-07T03:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:11:31","slug":"amd-fixes-bug-that-lets-hackers-load-malicious-microcode-patches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/amd-fixes-bug-that-lets-hackers-load-malicious-microcode-patches","title":{"rendered":"AMD fixes bug that lets hackers load malicious microcode patches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amd-fixes-bug-that-lets-hackers-load-malicious-microcode-patches2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AMD has released mitigation and firmware updates to address a high-severity vulnerability that can be exploited to load malicious CPU microcode on unpatched devices.<\/p>\n<p>The security flaw (<a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2024-56161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2024\u201356161<\/a>) is caused by an improper signature verification weakness in AMD\u2019s CPU ROM microcode patch loader.<\/p>\n<p>Attackers with local administrator privileges can exploit this weakness, resulting in the loss of confidentiality and integrity of a confidential guest running under AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD has released mitigation and firmware updates to address a high-severity vulnerability that can be exploited to load malicious CPU microcode on unpatched devices. The security flaw (CVE-2024\u201356161) is caused by an improper signature verification weakness in AMD\u2019s CPU ROM microcode patch loader. Attackers with local administrator privileges can exploit this weakness, resulting in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}