SB2025102470 - Privilege escalation in AMD Zen 5 Processors
Published: October 24, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Insufficient Entropy (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-62626)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient entropy in Zen 5 processors, which causes the RDSEED instruction to return 0 at a rate inconsistent with randomness while incorrectly signaling success (CF=1), indicating a potential misclassification of failure as success. A local user can escalate privileges on the system.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.