CVE-2021-26318

MEDIUM

AMD Athlon, Athlon Pro, EPYC, Ryzen, and Ryzen Pro Firmware - Observable Timing Discrepancy via PREFETCH Instructions

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A timing and power-based side channel attack leveraging the x86 PREFETCH instructions on some AMD CPUs could potentially result in leaked kernel address space information.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7
EPSS 0.0032
EPSS Percentile 23.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-208 CWE-203
Status published
Products (5)
amd/athlon_firmware
amd/athlon_pro_firmware
amd/epyc_firmware
amd/ryzen_firmware
amd/ryzen_pro_firmware
Published Oct 13, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026