CVE-2017-5927 in CPU

Summary

Page table walks conducted by the MMU during virtual to physical address translation leave a trace in the last level cache of modern ARM processors. By performing a side-channel attack on the MMU operations, it is possible to leak data and code pointers from JavaScript, breaking ASLR.

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• Reservation: 02/07/2017
• Disclosure: 02/27/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-97306
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-200 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.1
• EPSS: 0.00383
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5927
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5927
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-5927/