Enrique Nissim and Krzysztof Okupski discovered that some AMD processors did not properly restrict access to the System Management Mode (SMM) configuration when the SMM Lock was enabled. A privileged local attacker could possibly use this issue to further escalate their privileges and execute arbitrary code within the processor's firmware layer.
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