CVE-2020-0549
hw: L1D Cache Eviction Sampling
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · January 27, 2020
Updated · August 7, 2026
Description
A microarchitectural timing flaw was found on some Intel processors. A corner case exists where data in-flight during the eviction process can end up in the “fill buffers” and not properly cleared by the MDS mitigations. The fill buffer contents (which were expected to be blank) can be inferred using MDS or TAA style attack methods to allow a local attacker to infer fill buffer values.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE-385 · Covert Timing Channel