CVE-2020-0548

Public on 2020-01-28
Modified on 2020-07-15
Description
A flaw was found in Intel processors where a local attacker is able to gain information about registers used for vector calculations by observing register states from other processes running on the system. This results in a race condition where store buffers, which were not cleared, could be read by another process or a CPU sibling. The highest threat from this vulnerability is data confidentiality where an attacker could read arbitrary data as it passes through the processor.
Severity
Low severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
2.8
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 microcode_ctl 2020-07-14 ALAS-2020-1396 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core microcode_ctl 2020-06-26 ALAS2-2020-1444 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 2.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N