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Cisco XE: CVE-2018-3620: CPU Side-Channel Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities: August 2018

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Cisco XE: CVE-2018-3620: CPU Side-Channel Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities: August 2018

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/14/2018
Created
08/02/2019
Added
07/30/2019
Modified
11/13/2023

Description

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and address translations may allow unauthorized disclosure of information residing in the L1 data cache to an attacker with local user access via a terminal page fault and a side-channel analysis.

Solution(s)

  • cisco-xe-upgrade-latest

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