CVE Catalog

CVE-2021-35477

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.46%

38th percentile - higher than 38% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel through 5.13.7, an unprivileged BPF program can obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a Speculative Store Bypass side-channel attack because a certain preempting store operation does not necessarily occur before a store operation that has an attacker-controlled value.

Risk Assessment

A local, unprivileged user can read sensitive data from kernel memory, potentially leading to leakage of sensitive information. This may be used to bypass isolation and protection mechanisms.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (later than 5.13.7). Restrict the ability of unprivileged users to load BPF programs.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel through 5.13.7, an unprivileged BPF program can obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a Speculative Store Bypass side-channel attack because a certain preempting store operation does not necessarily occur before a store operation that has an attacker-controlled value.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS