Quick answers
- Is CVE-2025-48520 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-48520 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2025-48520?
- Informational severity, with a CVSS score of 6.9, published 15 May 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) Driver.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2025-48520?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2025-48520 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in an operating system.
- Am I affected by CVE-2025-48520?
- Check whether you run Amd Platform Management Framework Driver. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability (CWE-125) exists in the AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) driver due to improper input validation. A local attacker with low privileges can provide crafted input to the driver to trigger a read beyond the intended memory buffer. This can result in the disclosure of sensitive kernel-space information or lead to a denial-of-service condition via a system crash. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-48520 and has been addressed in AMD security bulletin AMD-SB-4015.
Affected products
- AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) Driver
Timeline
- 2026-05-15: disclosed: Initial publication of the CVE record and AMD advisory.