CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-29939

Medium
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

An improper access control vulnerability in Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) allows a privileged attacker to write to the reverse map page (RMP) during Secure Nested Paging (SNP) initialization, potentially leading to loss of guest memory confidentiality and integrity.

Risk Assessment

The organization risks compromise of guest memory confidentiality and integrity, enabling an attacker to read or modify sensitive data within virtual machines.

Recommendation

Apply vendor-provided patches immediately and update the firmware supporting SEV/SNP to mitigate the vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

Improper access control in secure encrypted virtualization (SEV) could allow a privileged attacker to write to the reverse map page (RMP) during secure nested paging (SNP) initialization, potentially resulting in a loss of guest memory confidentiality and integrity.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS