CVE-2017-5925
Page table walks conducted by the MMU during virtual to physical address translation leave a trace in the last level cache of modern Intel 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 products
- Intel Processors
- Allwinner a64
- All versions
- Amd Athlon Ii 640 x4
- All versions
- Amd e-350
- All versions
- Amd fx-8120 8-core
- All versions
- Amd fx-8320 8-core
- All versions
- Amd fx-8350 8-core
- All versions
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGH
- EPSS
- 1.6% (73th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-200
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-27
CVE-2017-5925 at NVD
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