{"id":"CVE-2017-5926","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-5926","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:46:21.911Z","title":"By performing a side-channel attack on the MMU operations, it is possible to leak data and code pointers from JavaScript, breaking ASLR.","description":"Page table walks conducted by the MMU during virtual to physical address translation leave a trace in the last level cache of modern AMD processors. By performing a side-channel attack on the MMU operations, it is possible to leak data and code pointers from JavaScript, breaking ASLR.","published":"2017-02-27T07:59:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:21:27.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-200"],"affected":["allwinner/a64","amd/athlon ii 640 x4","amd/e-350","amd/fx-8120 8-core","amd/fx-8320 8-core","amd/fx-8350 8-core","amd/phenom 9550 4-core","intel/atom c2750","intel/celeron n2840","intel/core i5 m480","intel/core i7-2620qm","intel/core i7-3632qm","intel/core i7-4500u","intel/core i7-6700k","intel/core i7 920","intel/xeon e3-1240 v5","intel/xeon e5-2658 v2","nvidia/tegra k1 cd570m-a1","nvidia/tegra k1 cd580m-a1","samsung/exynos 5800"],"epss":{"score":0.01581,"percentile":0.75388,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.58%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pdf","tags":["Exploit","Technical Description","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96457","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.vusec.net/projects/anc","tags":["Exploit","Technical Description","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pdf","tags":["Exploit","Technical Description","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96457","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.vusec.net/projects/anc","tags":["Exploit","Technical Description","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5926","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}