Windows Speculative Execution Configuration Check
medium Nessus Plugin ID 132101
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Synopsis
The remote host has not properly mitigated a series of speculative execution vulnerabilities.Description
The remote host has not properly mitigated a series of known speculative execution vulnerabilities. It, therefore, may be affected by :- Branch Target Injection (BTI) (CVE-2017-5715)
- Bounds Check Bypass (BCB) (CVE-2017-5753)
- Rogue Data Cache Load (RDCL) (CVE-2017-5754)
- Rogue System Register Read (RSRE) (CVE-2018-3640)
- Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) (CVE-2018-3639)
- L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) (CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646)
- Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM) (CVE-2019-11091)
- Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling (MSBDS) (CVE-2018-12126)
- Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling (MLPDS) (CVE-2018-12127)
- Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling (MFBDS) (CVE-2018-12130)
- TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA) (CVE-2019-11135)
Solution
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Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 132101
File Name: microsoft_windows_spec_execution.nbin
Version: 1.17
Type: local
Agent: windows
Family: Windows
Published: 12/18/2019
Updated: 11/8/2021
Dependencies: smb_hotfixes.nasl, microsoft_windows_env_vars.nasl, smb_enum_services.nasl
Risk Information
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-3615
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 8.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.4
Temporal Score: 4.7
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:N
Temporal Vector: E:H/RL:OF/RC:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.4
Temporal Score: 6.1
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Temporal Vector: E:H/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows
Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated, Host/cpu/processor_identifier
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2018
Exploitable With
CANVAS (CANVAS)
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754, CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3639, CVE-2018-3646, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2019-11135