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CVE-2023-52874

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-52874 is a medium-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's TDX_HYPERCALL macro, affecting systems utilizing Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). The flaw involves a missing register zeroing operation (RSI) after a hypercall returns from an untrusted Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), potentially allowing speculative execution of VMM-provided values. With a CVSS score of 5.5, exploitation requires local access and low privileges, but could lead to high confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 6.4, < 6.5.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.6, < 6.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
16.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0025 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-52874

kernel: x86/tdx: Zero out the missing RSI in TDX_HYPERCALL macro

May 21, 2024

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/2191950d35d8f81620ea8d4e04d983f664fe3a8a
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/5d092b66119d774853cc9308522620299048a662
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/de4c5bacca4f50233f1f791bec9eeb4dee1b14cd
Patch