AMD uprof Local Privilege Escalation via MSR Overwrite
CVE-2025-48502 Published on November 21, 2025

Improper input validation within AMD uprof can allow a local attacker to overwrite MSR registers, potentially resulting in crash or denial of service.

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2025-48502 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.

Attack Vector:
LOCAL
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
NONE
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input

The product receives input that is expected to specify an index, position, or offset into an indexable resource such as a buffer or file, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the specified index/position/offset has the required properties.


Products Associated with CVE-2025-48502

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Affected Versions

AMD μProf Version 5.0 is unaffected by CVE-2025-48502

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.05%
Percentile
15.39%

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