CVE-2023-20569
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.7 · CWE-203
4.7CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
A side channel vulnerability on some of the AMD CPUs may allow an attacker to influence the return address prediction. This may result in speculative execution at an attacker-controlled address, potentially leading to information disclosure.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)6%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/08/4
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-434.htmlAdvisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00013.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HKKYIK2EASDNUV4I7EFJKNBVO3KCKGRR/Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L4E4TZNMLYL2KETY23IPA43QXFAVJ46V/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PKK3IA63LSKM4EC3TN4UM6DDEIOWEQIG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T7WO5JM74YJSYAE5RBV4DC6A4YLEKWLF/Advisory
- https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/inception/Advisory