CVE-2017-5925

Page table walks conducted by the MMU during virtual to physical address translation leave a trace in the last level cache of modern Intel processors. By performing a side-channel attack on the MMU operations, it is possible to leak data and code pointers from JavaScript, breaking ASLR.

Score
CVSS 3.0 7.5 High
Status
Modified - cve@mitre.org
Published
2017-02-27
Last modified
2024-08-05
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Affected products

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