Medium severity5.6NVD Advisory· Published Mar 27, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-9056
CVE-2018-9056
Description
Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel attack on the directional branch predictor, as demonstrated by a pattern history table (PHT), aka BranchScope.
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References
2- www.cs.ucr.edu/~nael/pubs/asplos18.pdfnvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/its-not-just-spectre-researchers-reveal-more-branch-prediction-attacks/nvdThird Party Advisory
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