Speculative Race Condition impacts modern CPU architectures that support speculative execution, also known as GhostRace.
Priority LOW 28CWE-362Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.01278 70th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet |
Not affected: 1 product
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-2193
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-3p53-237x-3cww
References
Other 12
- 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/[email protected]/message/ZON4TLXG7TG4A2XZG563JMVTGQW4SF3A/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/H63LGAQXPEVJOES73U4XK65I6DASOAAG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EIUICU6CVJUIB6BPJ7P5QTPQR5VOBHFK/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/12/14
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Sources
- CVE-2024-2193 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-2193 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-3p53-237x-3cww · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2024-2193 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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