CVE-2017-5927

Page table walks conducted by the MMU during virtual to physical address translation leave a trace in the last level cache of modern ARM processors

published February 27, 2017

CVSS
—
EPSS
2%
Percentile
75.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Page table walks conducted by the MMU during virtual to physical address translation leave a trace in the last level cache of modern ARM processors. By performing a side-channel attack on the MMU operations, it is possible to leak data and code pointers from JavaScript, breaking ASLR.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01581 · 75.2th percentile
Published
2017-02-27T07:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 FEB 07:25Z
    Page table walks conducted by the MMU during virtual to physical address translation leave a trace in the last level cache of modern ARM processors
    cvelistv5