Security News > 2024 > March > GhostRace – New Data Leak Vulnerability Affects Modern CPUs
2024-03-15 17:46
A group of researchers has discovered a new data leakage attack impacting modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution. Dubbed GhostRace (CVE-2024-2193), it is a variation of the transient execution CPU vulnerability known as Spectre v1 (CVE-2017-5753). The approach combines speculative execution and race conditions. "All the common synchronization primitives implemented
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-15 | CVE-2024-2193 | A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. | 0.0 |
| 2018-01-04 | CVE-2017-5753 | Information Exposure Through Discrepancy vulnerability in multiple products Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis. | 5.6 |