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CVE-2023-20569

medium

Description

A side channel vulnerability on some of the AMD CPUs may allow an attacker to influence the return address prediction. This may result in speculative execution at an attacker-controlled address, potentially leading to information disclosure.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5475

https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security/bulletin/AMD-SB-7005

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/T7WO5JM74YJSYAE5RBV4DC6A4YLEKWLF/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HKKYIK2EASDNUV4I7EFJKNBVO3KCKGRR/

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-434.html

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-105-08

https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/inception/

https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7005.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240605-0006/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PKK3IA63LSKM4EC3TN4UM6DDEIOWEQIG/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/L4E4TZNMLYL2KETY23IPA43QXFAVJ46V/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00013.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/08/4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-08-08

Updated: 2026-06-17

Named Vulnerability: Inception

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00633