vulnerability

Cisco XE: CVE-2018-3646: CPU Side-Channel Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities: August 2018

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 14, 2018
Added
Jul 30, 2019
Modified
Nov 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 with guest OS privilege via a terminal page fault and a side-channel analysis.

Solution

cisco-xe-upgrade-latest

References

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