A side channel vulnerability on some of the AMD CPUs may allow an attacker to influence the return address prediction. This may result in speculative execution at an attacker-controlled address, potentially leading to information disclosure.
CVE-2023-20569
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2023-08-08. NVD baseline CVSS 4.7; sources differ by 2.8.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 4.7
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- 41(Track)EG Risk 41/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation7% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS
- 93.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 8, 2023
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (23)
- psirt@amdhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/08/4
- psirt@amdhttp://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-434.html
- psirt@amdhttps://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/inception/
- psirt@amdhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00013.html
- psirt@amdhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HKKYIK2EASDNUV4I7EFJKNBVO3KCKGRR/
- psirt@amdhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L4E4TZNMLYL2KETY23IPA43QXFAVJ46V/
- psirt@amdhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PKK3IA63LSKM4EC3TN4UM6DDEIOWEQIG/
- psirt@amdhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T7WO5JM74YJSYAE5RBV4DC6A4YLEKWLF/
- psirt@amdhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240605-0006/
- psirt@amdhttps://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security/bulletin/AMD-SB-7005
- psirt@amdhttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5475
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/08/4
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-434.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/inception/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00013.html
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-20569(4)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2024:0724Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2024:0448Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2024:0439Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update
- RHSA-2023:7749Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update
Patch Availability(27)
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(21)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHBA-2023:2977MODERATE2023-08-08
RHBA-2023:2977 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:6595MODERATE2023-08-08
RHSA-2023:6595 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:7109MODERATE2023-08-08
RHSA-2023:7109 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:7244MODERATE2023-08-08
RHSA-2023:7244 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:7401MODERATE2023-08-08
RHSA-2023:7401 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:7513MODERATE2023-08-08
RHSA-2023:7513 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:7782MODERATE2023-08-08
RHSA-2023:7782 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:0113MODERATE2023-08-08
RHSA-2024:0113 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:0134MODERATE2023-08-08
RHSA-2024:0134 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:0433MODERATE2023-08-08
RHSA-2024:0433 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:0449MODERATE2023-08-08
RHSA-2024:0449 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:0561MODERATE2023-08-08
RHSA-2024:0561 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:2005MODERATE2023-08-08
RHSA-2024:2005 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:5255MODERATE2023-08-08
RHSA-2024:5255 — Moderate
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2023-205692023-08-08
AMD: CVE-2023-20569 Return Address Predictor
- UbuntuUSN-6319-1HIGH
AMD Microcode vulnerability
- UbuntuUSN-6412-1HIGH
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6415-1HIGH
Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6416-1HIGH
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6416-2HIGH
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6416-3HIGH
Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities
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