{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2020-11-20T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: speculation on incompletely validated data on IBM Power9",
    "id" : "1888433",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1888433"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.1",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-200",
  "details" : [ "IBM Power9 (AIX 7.1, 7.2, and VIOS 3.1) processors could allow a local user to obtain sensitive information from the data in the L1 cache under extenuating circumstances. IBM X-Force ID: 189296.", "A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data stored in the L1 cache before it has been completely validated.  The attack has limited access to memory and is only able to access memory normally permissible to the execution context. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Anthony Steinhauser (Google's Safeside Project) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2022-05-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:1988",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-alt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-4788\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-4788\nhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/189296\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/20201119231333.361771-1-dja@axtens.net/T/#me4f6a44748747e3327d27cd95200bf7a87486ffc\nhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/20/3" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2020-4788",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}