Port Contention Goes Portable
Thomas Rokicki, Clémentine Maurice, Marina Botvinnik, Yossi Oren · Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security · 2022
Microarchitectural side-channel attacks can derive secrets from the execution of vulnerable programs. Their implementation in web browsers represents a considerable extension of their attack surface, as a user simply browsing a malicious website, or even a malicious third-party advertisement in a benign cross-origin isolated website, can be a victim.