CVE-2017-5753
5.6
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 94.3%
Description
Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis.
How to fix CVE-2017-5753
To remediate CVE-2017-5753, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/intel-ucode—upgrade to 20190514a-r0 or later
- Alpine/xen—upgrade to 4.7.3-r4 or later
- —upgrade to 4.15.11-1 or later
- —upgrade to 384.111-1 or later
Is CVE-2017-5753 being exploited?
Likely — EPSS is 94.3%, placing CVE-2017-5753 in the top tier of vulnerabilities by exploitation probability. Prioritise patching.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 20190514a-r0
- from 0, < 4.7.3-r4
- from 0, < 4.15.11-1
- from 0, < 384.111-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |