Versal™ Adaptive SoC – Overwriting Protected Memory Regions through PLM Firmware
AMD ID: AMD-SB-8010
Potential Impact: Loss of confidentiality and Integrity
Severity: Medium
Summary
In Versal™ Adaptive SoC devices, the Platform Loader and Manager (PLM) implements runtime (post-boot) software services that can allow a remote processor to command the PLM to execute cryptographic operations – including AES, SHA3, RSA, ECDSA – using the hardened cryptographic accelerators, eFUSE and BBRAM reads and writes, reloading PDIs, and reading back the FPGA on behalf of the remote processor.
A potential vulnerability exists with commanding these runtime services, in that the memory passed with the command to execute the services is not checked by the PLM to verify that the requesting processor has access to the memory space.
CVE Details
Refer to Glossary for explanation of terms
| CVE | CVSS Score | CVE Description |
| CVE-2025-0037 | 6.6 (Medium) CVSS3.1:AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H | In AMD Versal™ Adaptive SoC devices, the lack of address validation when executing PLM runtime services through the PLM firmware can allow access to isolated or protected memory spaces, resulting in the loss of integrity and confidentiality. |
Specific CVSS scores may change subject to your implementation. We encourage you to calculate CVSS scores independently for your system.
Affected Products and Mitigation
| Program | Mitigation | Mitigation Release Date |
| PLM for Versal™ Adaptive SoC Devices | 2026.1 | 2026-06-10 |
| PLM for Versal™ RF Series | 2026.1 | 2026-06-10 |
| PLM for Versal™ AI Edge Series | 2026.1 | 2026-06-10 |
| PLM for Versal™ Prime Series | 2026.1 | 2026-06-10 |
| PLM for Versa™ Premium Series | 2026.1 | 2026-06-10 |
| PLM for Versal™ AI Core Series | 2026.1 | 2026-06-10 |
| PLM for Versal™ HBM Series | 2026.1 | 2026-06-10 |
| PLM for Alveo™ V80 Compute Accelerator | 2026.1 | 2026-06-10 |
| PLM for Alveo™ V70 Accelerator Card (Discontinued) | 2026.1 | 2026-06-10 |
Acknowledgement
This issue was discovered internally by AMD.
Revisions
| Revision Date | Description |
| 2026-02-24 | Updated target mitigation release dates |
| 2025-06-03 | Initial publication |
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