CVE-2017-5926

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.

CVSS v3.0

7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS

1.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 74th percentile

Published

2017-02-27

Updated

2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://www.vusec.net/projects/anc

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2017-5925
• CVE-2017-5927
• CVE-2017-5899
• CVE-2017-5929
• CVE-2017-5885
• CVE-2017-5930