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CVE-2022-25368 — Amperecomputing Ampere Altra Max Firmware security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 4.7

Spectre BHB is a variant of Spectre-v2 in which malicious code uses the shared branch history (stored in the CPU BHB) to influence mispredicted branches in the victim's hardware context. Speculation caused by these mispredicted branches can then potentially be used to cause cache allocation, which can then be used to infer information that should be protected.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
4.7 (3.1)
Published
2022-03-10
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system

Affected products

  • amperecomputing / ampere_altra_max_firmware
  • amperecomputing / ampere_altra_firmware
  • arm / neoverse-e1_firmware
  • arm / neoverse-v1_firmware
  • arm / cortex-a57_firmware
  • arm / cortex-a65_firmware

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General vulnerability remediation

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Check exposure

  • Confirm the affected component, deployment paths, reachable interfaces, and enabled features from inventories and configuration, without probing production destructively.
  • Compare the advisory's affected conditions with the repository lockfiles, build manifests, artifacts, and runtime inventory.
  • Identify data sensitivity, trust boundaries, and privilege level for every confirmed affected deployment.

Remediate safely

  • Apply a vendor-supported fix or remove the affected component or feature; record the selected change and its source in the repository.
  • Update direct and transitive dependency locks, generated artifacts, deployment manifests, and asset inventories together.
  • Add a regression test for the documented unsafe condition using inert inputs and preserve rollback instructions.

Authoritative sources

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