SWAPGS attack

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2019
SWAPGS Attack – A new Spectre-V1 attack affects modern chips

Experts discovered a new variant of the Spectre vulnerability (SWAPGS Attack) that affects modern Intel CPUs which leverage speculative-execution, and also some AMD processors. Experts discovered a new Spectre speculative execution flaw (SWAPGS attack), tracked as CVE-2019-1125, that affects all Modern Intel CPUs and some AMD processors. The flaw could be exploited by unprivileged local attackers to access […]