
3rd AMD confidential computing attack in 3 months. Staleus (CVE-2025-54509) lets a malicious hypervisor flip a config, desync PSP and CPU memory views, and gain read/write access to a confidential VM. Software-only, 100% success rate. AMD released patches. http://xca-attacks.github.io/staleus
Post summary
The post recounts a third in‑the‑wild exploitation of CVE-2025‑54509, explains how the flaw operates, provides a PoC link, and notes that AMD has released patches.

