Security Advisory
CVE-2018-9056
5.6
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel attack on the directional branch predictor, as demonstrated by a pattern history table (PHT), aka BranchScope.
Published Date
March 27, 2018
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory