CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-5926

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-02-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-02-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Description

Page table walks conducted by the MMU during virtual to physical address translation leave a trace in the last level cache of modern AMD processors. By performing a side-channel attack on the MMU operations, it is possible to leak data and code pointers from JavaScript, breaking ASLR.

Affected configurations

• allwinner a64 • amd athlon ii 640 x4 • amd e-350 • amd fx-8120 8-core • amd fx-8320 8-core • amd fx-8350 8-core • amd phenom 9550 4-core • intel atom c2750 • intel celeron n2840 • intel core i5 m480 • intel core i7-2620qm • intel core i7-3632qm • intel core i7-4500u • intel core i7-6700k • intel core i7 920 • intel xeon e3-1240 v5 • intel xeon e5-2658 v2 • nvidia tegra k1 cd570m-a1 • nvidia tegra k1 cd580m-a1 • samsung exynos 5800

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References