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A side channel vulnerability on some of the AMD CPUs...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Aug 8, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 10, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 8, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 8, 2023
Last updated Jun 10, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(69th percentile)

Weaknesses

Observable Discrepancy

The product behaves differently or sends different responses under different circumstances in a way that is observable to an unauthorized actor, which exposes security-relevant information about the state of the product, such as whether a particular operation was successful or not. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2023-20569

GHSA ID

GHSA-xr6c-7pfv-6vgf

Source code

No known source code

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