CVE-2021-28690
MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: June 29, 2021 at 11:16 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:46 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXen
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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1.0%
Description
x86: TSX Async Abort protections not restored after S3 This issue relates to the TSX Async Abort speculative security vulnerability. Please see https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-305.html for details. Mitigating TAA by disabling TSX (the default and preferred option) requires selecting a non-default setting in MSR_TSX_CTRL. This setting isn't restored after S3 suspend.
Affected
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (2)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-30x_refsource_MISCPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-377.txtCVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- NONE
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StatusMODIFIED
CWE
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