Phoenix RowHammer Attack Bypasses Advanced DDR5 Memory Protections in 109 Seconds

A team of academics from ETH Zürich and Google has discovered a new variant of a RowHammer attack targeting Double Data Rate 5 DDR5 memory chips from South Korean semiconductor vendor SK Hynix. The RowHammer attack variant, codenamed Phoenix CVE-2025-6202, CVSS score: 7.1, is capable of bypassing...

CVE-2025-6202

Vulnerability in SK Hynix DDR5 on x86 allows a local attacker to trigger Rowhammer bit flips impacting the Hardware Integrity and the system's security. This issue affects DDR5: DIMMs produced from 2021-1 until 2024-12...