Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-26318 - Information Exposure Through Discrepancy vulnerability in AMD products

047910
CVSS 4.7 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
local
high complexity
amd
CWE-203

Summary

A timing and power-based side channel attack leveraging the x86 PREFETCH instructions on some AMD CPUs could potentially result in leaked kernel address space information.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)