Severity
6.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.1%
top 66.43%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJul 14
Latest updateJul 15

Description

Aliases in the branch predictor may cause some AMD processors to predict the wrong branch type potentially leading to information disclosure.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.0 | Impact: 4.0

Affected Packages3 packages

CVEListV5amd/amd_processorsProcessor Some AMD Processors
Debianxen< 4.14.5+24-g87d90d511c-1+3
NVDvmware/esxi7.0

Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0, Fedora 35, 36

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-w7j2-r4x6-6frw: Aliases in the branch predictor may cause some AMD processors to predict the wrong branch type potentially leading to information disclosure2022-07-15
OSV
CVE-2022-23825: Aliases in the branch predictor may cause some AMD processors to predict the wrong branch type potentially leading to information disclosure2022-07-14
CVEList
CVE-2022-23825: Aliases in the branch predictor may cause some AMD processors to predict the wrong branch type potentially leading to information disclosure2022-07-14

📋Vendor Advisories

4
VMware
VMware ESXi addresses Return-Stack-Buffer-Underflow and Branch Type Confusion vulnerabilities2022-07-12
Red Hat
hw: cpu: AMD: Branch Type Confusion (non-retbleed)2022-07-12
Microsoft
AMD: CVE-2022-23825 AMD CPU Branch Type Confusion2022-07-12
Debian
CVE-2022-23825: xen - Aliases in the branch predictor may cause some AMD processors to predict the wro...2022