Cross-core data disclosure via incomplete buffer cleanup
Published Jun 15, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024
Special register buffer data sampling in some Intel processors allows local users to infer sensitive values read on other CPU cores. A special register read refreshes only the needed portion of a shared staging buffer, leaving stale RDRAND, RDSEED, or SGX EGETKEY data that the processor copies into a core's fill buffer. Code running locally on an affected processor that is also susceptible to MFBDS or TAA can sample those stale values across cores, exposing only special-register data rather than arbitrary memory.
Summary
What happened
Special register buffer data sampling in some Intel processors allows local users to infer sensitive values read on other CPU cores. A special register read refreshes only the needed portion of a shared staging buffer, leaving stale RDRAND, RDSEED, or SGX EGETKEY data that the processor copies into a core's fill buffer. Code running locally on an affected processor that is also susceptible to MFBDS or TAA can sample those stale values across cores, exposing only special-register data rather than arbitrary memory.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-0543
- Published
- Jun 15, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-459, T1212
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 15, 2020CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 4, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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