Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-5926

Title: Amd Athlon Ii 640 X4 Information Disclosure

Information Disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-5926.

CWE Category CWE-200

Published Date Feb 27, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.58%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pdf http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96457 https://www.vusec.net/projects/anc http://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pdf http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96457 https://www.vusec.net/projects/anc

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns