CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-10767

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-09-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-09-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-440

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the implementation of the Enhanced IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier). The IBPB mitigation will be disabled when STIBP is not available or when the Enhanced Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) is available. This flaw allows a local attacker to perform a Spectre V2 style attack when this configuration is active. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 5.8.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-440 Expected Behavior Violation weakness

References