CVE-2018-5407
Public on 2018-11-15
Modified on 2019-04-17
Description
A microprocessor side-channel vulnerability was found on SMT (e.g, Hyper-Threading) architectures. An attacker running a malicious process on the same core of the processor as the victim process can extract certain secret information.
Severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
| Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 1 | openssl | 2019-04-04 | ALAS-2019-1188 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 2 - Core | openssl | 2019-04-04 | ALAS2-2019-1188 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
| Score Type | Score | Vector | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 4.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVD | CVSSv2 | 1.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| NVD | CVSSv3 | 4.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |