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CVE-2022-27672

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-27672 is a medium-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting certain AMD processors when Simultaneous Multi-threading (SMT) is enabled. The vulnerability allows speculative execution of instructions using data from a sibling thread after an SMT mode switch, potentially exposing sensitive information. With a CVSS score of 4.7, exploitation requires local access and high attack complexity, but does not rely on user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:amd:athlon_x4_750_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:amd:athlon_x4_760k_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:amd:athlon_x4_830_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:amd:athlon_x4_840_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:amd:athlon_x4_860k_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.7MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
21.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0029 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 1,297 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: kernel-0:5.14.0-284.40.1.el9_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel-rt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-27672Moderate

kernel: AMD: Cross-Thread Return Address Predictions

Feb 14, 2023

References

xenbits.xen.org / xsa/advisory-426.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202402-07
amd.com / en/corporate/product-security/bulletin/AMD-SB-1045
MitigationVendor Advisory