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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
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 openssl 2019-04-04 19:13 ALAS-2019-1188
Amazon Linux 2 - Core openssl 2019-04-04 21:45 ALAS2-2019-1188

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