Information Disclosure in Intel Atom C (CVE-2017-5754)
Summary
Vulnerability in Intel Atom C (CVE-2017-5754). Confidential information can be exposed externally.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis of the data cache.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-5754 has been found in Intel Atom C.
Confidential information can be exposed externally. CVSS score: 5.6/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Intel Atom C CVE-2017-5754" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2017-5754 (Intel Atom C) — CWE-200 / CVSS v3 5.6
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Information disclosure (CWE-200) exists in Intel Atom C.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Intel Atom C.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.6/10). Confidential information can be exposed externally.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Intel Atom C を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2017-5754 intel-ucode Fixed in: 20190514a-r0
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2017-5754
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5754 linux Fixed in: 4.14.12-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5754 firefox Fixed in: 57.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
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