Source · Tier A · Peer-reviewed
RMPocalypse: How a Catch-22 Breaks AMD SEV-SNP
B. Schlüter, S. Shinde. 2025. 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '25).
| Link | https://rmpocalypse.github.io/ |
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| DOI | 10.1145/3719027.3765233 |
| Version | Read the authors' site and the paper PDF linked from it (https://rmpocalypse.github.io/rmpocalypse-CCS2025.pdf) on 2026-09-24. The DOI and venue are from the ACM reference block printed in the PDF. |
| Accessed | 2026-09-24 |
| Note | Independent attack paper (ETH Zurich). A malicious hypervisor corrupts AMD's Reverse Map Table during SEV-SNP initialisation, with no physical access. Confirmed on Zen 3, Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors. Demonstrates enabling debug on production confidential VMs, faking attestation, register-state replay and code injection. AMD assigned CVE-2025-0033; AMD's bulletin is S-1213. |