4.7 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
1.9 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Information disclosure.
Source: HP, HP Product Security Response Team (PSRT)
Reported By: Tampere University of Technology, Finland and Technical University, Cuba
An industry-wide vulnerability has been reported which impacts CPUs that use Simultaneous Multithreading Technology (SMT). The attack consists of running a malicious process in parallel with legitimate processes using the parallel threading capabilities of SMT. The legitimate process leaks small amounts of data to the malicious processes, which could allow an attacker to reconstruct the data that was inside the legitimate process.
HP worked with industry partners to analyze the researcher’s findings. Software written using safe algorithms to prevent side channel analysis are not vulnerable to the researchers’ methods. The firmware shipped on HP platforms is not vulnerable to this issue; there will not be any firmware updates published with this security bulletin.
Additional Resources:
AMD article on PortSmash mitigations__ (in English)
4.7 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
1.9 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N