AMD Vivado™ Design Suite Vulnerabilities
Summary
Researchers reported vulnerabilities in the 2024.2 AMD Vivado™ Design Suite and Documentation Navigator tool installations on local Windows machines related to weak permissions and uncontrolled search paths. AMD believes these are valid vulnerabilities and will be providing a fix in a future release for non-discontinued products.
CVE Details
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CVE |
CVE Description |
CVSS Score |
| CVE-2025-52541 | Uncontrolled search paths in the 2024.2 Vivado™ installation could allow a lower-level, local user to achieve privilege escalation, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution. | 7.3 High CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| CVE-2025-54519 | Uncontrolled search paths in the 2024.2 Vivado™ Documentation Navigator installation could allow a lower-level, local user to achieve privilege escalation, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution. | 7.3 High CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Affected Products and Mitigation
AMD recommends updating to the mitigated version shown below.
Program |
CVE ID |
Mitigation |
Mitigation Release Date |
Vivado™ Installation (Windows) |
CVE-2025-52541 |
2025.2 |
2025-11-20 |
Vivado™ Documentation Navigator installation (Windows) |
CVE-2025-54519 |
No Fix Planned *1 |
N/A |
[1] No fix planned as the tool will be retired
Acknowledgement
AMD thanks the following researcher for participating in the AMD Bug Bounty Program:
- Researcher Mohamed Amine Saidani (“pwni”): CVE 2025-54519
AMD thanks Jiho Shin (M.S. graduate, Sungkyunkwan University), Professor Moohong Min (Sungkyunkwan University), and Professor Aram Kim (University of Suwon) for submitting the report and engaging in coordinated vulnerability disclosure: CVE 2025-52541
Revisions
| Revision Date | Description |
| 2026-02-10 | Initial publication |
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