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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Gain control of a peer rank or network-adjacent position
  2. Exploit
    Send crafted RCCL collective data
  3. Execution
    Trigger untrusted pointer dereference
  4. Impact
    Execute arbitrary code on target node

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Untrusted pointer prevention
Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires the attacker to control a peer rank within an RCCL (ROCm Communication Collectives Library) collective-communication group - i.e., participation in a multi-GPU/multi-node distributed workload on AMD Instinct hardware - or a network-adjacent position on the collective fabric; this maps to PR:L, so some authenticated/privileged foothold in the compute environment is needed, not anonymous internet access. The flaw is an improper input validation leading to an attacker-controlled pointer dereference (CWE-822). Limiting factors: AC:H indicates specific conditions/timing or data shaping are required, RCCL is only exercised in distributed GPU workloads (not a default internet-facing service), and the attack surface is confined to AMD Instinct MI200/MI300-class GPU deployments running the affected RCCL version.

Impact

This is a moderate-priority issue rather than a drop-everything emergency, and the signals are largely consistent. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N) describes a network-reachable but high-complexity flaw that requires some level of privilege - consistent with the description's 'compromised peer rank or network-adjacent attacker,' meaning the attacker must already be a participant in, or adjacent to, an RCCL collective-communication group rather than an arbitrary internet attacker. Technical impact is high (VC:H/VI:H/VA:H), and the untrusted-pointer-dereference weakness (CWE-822) plausibly supports remote code execution. However, no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public POC were provided, so there is no public-exploitation signal. The combination of AC:H (high attack complexity), PR:L (requires privilege), and a deployment footprint limited to AMD Instinct datacenter GPU clusters strongly argues for targeted, insider-or-tenant-level risk rather than mass exploitation. Net: a genuine high-impact bug worth patching in AI/HPC environments, but not a high-probability widespread-exploitation threat on current evidence. No conflicting signals were observed, but the absence of EPSS/KEV/POC means exploitation likelihood cannot be quantified from the input.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

In a multi-GPU AMD Instinct training or HPC cluster, an attacker who controls one peer rank (e.g., a malicious tenant, compromised node, or network-adjacent host on the collective fabric) sends crafted data through RCCL that fails input validation and causes an attacker-controlled pointer to be dereferenced. Under the right conditions this can corrupt memory and lead to arbitrary code execution on the targeted node. No public exploit code was identified at time of analysis, and the high attack complexity means exploitation is non-trivial.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
No patch listed yet 0.5% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 06, 2026

Attacker-controlled pointer dereference in AMD's ROCm Communication Collectives Library (RCCL) can escalate to remote code execution when a compromised peer rank - or a network-adjacent attacker on the collective fabric - participates in a multi-GPU or multi-node distributed workload. The defect (CWE-822, untrusted pointer dereference) affects RCCL running on AMD Instinct MI200/MI300/MI350-class accelerators and carries a CVSS 4.0 base score of 7.7 (vector AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N, High confidentiality/integrity/availability), mapping to an assessed CVSS 3.1 of AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. Exploitation is not confirmed as active (CVE is not in CISA KEV) and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis; the attack requires a pre-existing foothold as a peer rank inside the collective group rather than anonymous internet access, so this is a moderate-priority issue for distributed AMD GPU deployments rather than an internet-wide emergency.

RemediationAI

AMD addressed this issue through its product security bulletin AMD-SB-6033 (https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/AMD-SB-6033.html), which should be treated as the authoritative source for the fixed RCCL build and per-platform version guidance; the exact patched version is not enumerated in the available data and must be taken from that bulletin rather than inferred. Because exploitation requires controlling a peer rank or fabric-adjacent position, the highest-value compensating controls are environmental: restrict the collective interconnect (InfiniBand/RoCE fabric or the sockets path) to trusted nodes via partitioning and switch-level ACLs, and segregate or forbid untrusted tenants from sharing a collective group - this removes the PR:L foothold the attack depends on, at the cost of reduced cluster sharing and tighter job-scheduling constraints. Admission control in the job scheduler (co-scheduling only mutually trusted users/jobs onto the same RCCL group) and credential hardening of the distributed runtime are practical stopgaps with minor operational overhead. Where a transport is not required, disabling unused RCCL transports can shrink the parsable input surface, but this changes performance and topology behavior and should be validated against the workload. Monitor for anomalous collective traffic, unexpected peer identities and process crashes in rank handlers, and treat any RCCL version not confirmed fixed by AMD-SB-6033 as unpatched.

Affected VersionsENISA

AMD Instinct™ MI355X patch: ROCm 7.14
AMD Instinct™ MI300X patch: ROCm 7.14
AMD Instinct™ MI325X patch: ROCm 7.14
AMD Instinct™ MI210 patch: ROCm 7.14
AMD Instinct™ MI308X patch: ROCm 7.14
AMD Instinct™ MI350X patch: ROCm 7.14
AMD Instinct™ MI250X patch: ROCm 7.14
AMD Instinct™ MI250 patch: ROCm 7.14
AMD Instinct™ MI300A patch: ROCm 7.14

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Technical ContextAI · show details

RCCL is AMD's collective-communication library for the ROCm software stack, providing allreduce, broadcast, allgather and related primitives used by distributed deep-learning frameworks such as PyTorch DDP and Horovod, as well as MPI-style HPC workloads. It transports data over RDMA/InfiniBand, RoCE or TCP sockets and shared-memory paths, exchanging rank metadata, buffers and address information between participating processes. The root cause here is CWE-822 (Untrusted Pointer Dereference): input received from a peer rank is insufficiently validated before a pointer derived from it is dereferenced, so a malicious rank can supply a crafted address and steer the receiving process to read or write attacker-chosen memory, which in a native-code GPU runtime can be leveraged toward remote code execution in the hosting process. Because RCCL is only exercised in distributed GPU workloads, it is not a default internet-facing service; the practical attack surface is a multi-GPU or multi-node AMD Instinct cluster where an attacker already controls one rank or can inject traffic on the collective interconnect. The AV:N/AC:H/PR:L assessment reflects that a limited-privilege foothold inside the compute environment is required (PR:L), while AC:H captures the specific timing and data-shaping conditions needed to land the malicious pointer in a dereferenced path; the CPE set (AMD Instinct MI210, MI250, MI250X, MI300A, MI300X, MI308X, MI325X, MI350X, MI355X) defines the hardware platforms reviewed by the vendor advisory.

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Severity by source

Vendor (AMD) PRIMARY 7.7 HIGH
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
vuln.today AI 7.5 HIGH

Reachable over the collective network (AV:N) but requires a controlled peer rank (PR:L) and specific data-shaping conditions (AC:H); RCE yields full C/I/A impact with no scope change.

3.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (AMD).

CVSS VectorVendor: AMD

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Vulnerable system: Confidentiality
High
Vulnerable system: Integrity
High
Vulnerable system: Availability
High
Subsequent system: Confidentiality
None
Subsequent system: Integrity
None
Subsequent system: Availability
None

DescriptionCVE.org

Improper input validation in the AMD ROCm Communication Collectives Library (RCCL) could allow a compromised peer rank or network-adjacent attacker to dereference an attacker-controlled pointer, potentially resulting in remote code execution.

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

AMD's ROCm Communication Collectives Library (RCCL) on AMD Instinct MI200, MI300, and MI350 accelerators contains a high-severity pointer dereference flaw that could let a compromised peer rank execute code across distributed GPU workloads. The issue requires an authenticated foothold inside the collective and no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, so it is not an internet-wide emergency, but organizations running multi-node AMD GPU clusters for AI, HPC, or analytics should treat it as a material risk to workload integrity and sensitive data. Leadership should care because successful exploitation could disrupt critical GPU-accelerated services and compromise model, training, or inference data.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations: restrict collective fabric to trusted, authenticated peer ranks; segment GPU interconnect networks; enforce mutual authentication and least privilege; monitor for anomalous peer-rank activity; isolate high-risk multi-node AMD Instinct MI200/MI300/MI350 workloads until vendor guidance or patch is available.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.5%
Top 62% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
AMD Instinct datacenter GPUs; common in AI/HPC clusters, not everywhere
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity HIGH
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.5%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact
High
Technical Impact
Total

Priority Score

38
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +38
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.

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