CVE-2020-12912: AMD Energy Driver For Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A potential vulnerability in the AMD extension to Linux "hwmon" service may allow an attacker to use the Linux-based Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) interface to show various side channel attacks. In line with industry partners, AMD has updated the RAPL interface to require privileged access.

Affected products

• AMD Energy Driver For Linux: any version

Published 2020-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.