CVSS 3.0
5.6 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2005-0109
Medium (5.6). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Hyper-Threading technology, as used in FreeBSD and other operating systems that are run on Intel Pentium and other processors, allows local users to use a malicious thread to create covert channels, monitor the execution of other threads, and obtain sensitive information such as cryptographic keys, via a timing attack on memory cache misses.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 43% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- freebsd:freebsd
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:fedora_core
- sco:openserver
- sco:unixware
- sun:solaris
- ubuntu:ubuntu_linux