High severity · published Aug 17, 2022
CVE-2022-37459
Ampere Altra devices before 1.08g and Ampere Altra Max devices before 2.05a allow attackers to control the predictions for return addresses and potentially hijack code flow to…
7.8
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Ampere Altra devices before 1.08g and Ampere Altra Max devices before 2.05a allow attackers to control the predictions for return addresses and potentially hijack code flow to execute arbitrary code via a side-channel attack, aka a "Retbleed" issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 13% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AA
Ampere Altra Firmware · Amperecomputing
before 1.08g · source: NVD
AA
Ampere Altra Max Firmware · Amperecomputing
before 2.05a · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37459
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-37459
Vendor Advisory
https://amperecomputing.com/products/security-bulletins/retbleed.html
Third Party Advisory
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ka005138/1-0/
More from Ampere Altra Firmware
9.8
CVE-2022-46892
In Ampere AltraMax and Ampere Altra before 2.10c, improper access controls allows the OS to reinitialize a disabled root complex
9.8
CVE-2022-32295
On Ampere Altra and AltraMax devices before SRP 1.09, the Altra reference design of UEFI accesses allows insecure access to SPI-NOR by the OS/hypervisor component
7.5
CVE-2021-45454
Ampere Altra before SRP 1.08b and Altra Max before SRP 2.05 allow information disclosure of power telemetry via HWmon
6.5
CVE-2022-35888
Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max devices through 2022-07-15 allow attacks via Hertzbleed, which is a power side-channel attack that extracts secret information from the CPU by…
4.7
CVE-2022-25368
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…