CPU hardware utilizing speculative execution may be vulnerable to speculative race conditions

ronjor · Mar 18, 2024

Original Release Date: 2024-03-14 | Last Revised: 2024-03-15

Overview
A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution has been discovered. CPU hardware utilizing speculative execution that are vulnerable to Spectre v1 are likely affected
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. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the speculative executable code paths. Security researchers have labeled this variant of the Spectre v1 vulnerability “GhostRace", for ease of communication.
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Impact
An attacker with access to CPU resources may be able to read arbitrary privileged data or system registry values by utilizing the race condition, termed as speculative race condition.
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Solution
Please update your software according to the recommendations from respective vendors with the latest mitigations available to address this vulnerability and its variants.
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