cve/2018/CVE-2018-9056.md

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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~nael/pubs/asplos18.pdf

Github

• https://github.com/codexlynx/hardware-attacks-state-of-the-art
• https://github.com/nsacyber/Hardware-and-Firmware-Security-Guidance