CVSS 3.0
7.5 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2017-5925
Page table walks conducted by the MMU during virtual to physical address translation leave a trace in the last level cache of modern Intel processors. By performing a side-channel attack on the MMU operations, it is possible to leak data and code pointers from JavaScript, breaking ASLR.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 75% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- allwinner:a64
- amd:athlon_ii_640_x4
- amd:e-350
- amd:fx-8120_8-core
- amd:fx-8320_8-core
- amd:fx-8350_8-core
- amd:phenom_9550_4-core
- intel:atom_c2750
- intel:celeron_n2840
- intel:core_i5_m480
- intel:core_i7-2620qm
- intel:core_i7-3632qm
- intel:core_i7-4500u
- intel:core_i7-6700k
- intel:core_i7_920
- intel:xeon_e3-1240_v5
- intel:xeon_e5-2658_v2
- nvidia:tegra_k1_cd570m-a1
- nvidia:tegra_k1_cd580m-a1
- samsung:exynos_5800