Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0109

Title: Hyper-Threading technology side-channel attack

Information Disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-0109.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Mar 05, 2005
Modified Date Apr 03, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.6 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.14%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0109: Hyper-Threading technology, as used in FreeBSD and other operating systems that are run on Intel Pentium and other processors, allows local users to use a malicious thread to create covert channels, monitor the execution of other threads, and obtain sensitive information such as cryptographic keys, via a timing attack on memory cache misses.

Impacted Vendors

F
freebsd 1
N
novell 1
C
caldera 2
F
fedoraproject 1
S
sun 1
O
oracle 1
R
redhat 3
U
ubuntu 1
S
sco 2

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.24/SCOSA-2005.24.txt http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-hackers&m=110994026421858&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-security&m=110994370429609&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=110995101417256&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/15348 http://secunia.com/advisories/18165 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013967 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101739-1 http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1SSRVHMCHMC_C081516_754 http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful/ http://www.daemonology.net/papers/htt.pdf http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/911878 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-476.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-800.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12724 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0540 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3002 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9747 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.24/SCOSA-2005.24.txt http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-hackers&m=110994026421858&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-security&m=110994370429609&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=110995101417256&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/15348 http://secunia.com/advisories/18165 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013967 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101739-1 http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1SSRVHMCHMC_C081516_754 http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful/ http://www.daemonology.net/papers/htt.pdf http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/911878 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-476.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-800.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12724 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0540 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3002 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9747
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.6
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
CHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.7
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0109 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity HIGH
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.