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CVE-2024-2193: Speculative Race Condition impacts modern CPU architectures that support speculative execution, also known as GhostRace.

Description

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the speculative executable code paths.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-2193

Affected Products

Vendor: AMD

Product: CPU

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 18.42% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-14 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/488902
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-453.html
https://www.vusec.net/projects/ghostrace/
https://download.vusec.net/papers/ghostrace_sec24.pdf
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/patch/?id=944d5fe50f3f03daacfea16300e656a1691c4a23
https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2024/03/12/ghostrace
https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7016.html
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/488902
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZON4TLXG7TG4A2XZG563JMVTGQW4SF3A/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/H63LGAQXPEVJOES73U4XK65I6DASOAAG/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EIUICU6CVJUIB6BPJ7P5QTPQR5VOBHFK/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/12/14

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