# CVE-2024-2193: Speculative Race Condition impacts modern CPU architectures that support speculative execution, also known as GhostRace.

- Severity: CVSS 5.7 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2024-03-15 · Updated: 2025-04-30

## Affected

- AMD CPU: See advisory AMD-SB-7016
- Xen: consult Xen advisory XSA-453

## Description

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the speculative executable code paths.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on AMD CPU, Xen, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/488902
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-453.html
- https://www.vusec.net/projects/ghostrace/
- https://download.vusec.net/papers/ghostrace_sec24.pdf
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/patch/?id=944d5fe50f3f03daacfea16300e656a1691c4a23
- https://ibm.github.io/system-security-research-updates/2024/03/12/ghostrace
- https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7016.html
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/488902
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZON4TLXG7TG4A2XZG563JMVTGQW4SF3A/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H63LGAQXPEVJOES73U4XK65I6DASOAAG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EIUICU6CVJUIB6BPJ7P5QTPQR5VOBHFK/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/12/14
- https://github.com/uthrasri/CVE-2024-2193

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