CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.6. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2021-46778
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.6
EPSS
0.22%
Original NVD Description
Execution unit scheduler contention may lead to a side channel vulnerability found on AMD CPU microarchitectures codenamed “Zen 1”, “Zen 2” and “Zen 3” that use simultaneous multithreading (SMT). By measuring the contention level on scheduler queues an attacker may potentially leak sensitive information.
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