rowhammer attack

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-003652",
  "term": "rowhammer attack",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "A software-based fault-injection attack that exploits dynamic random-access memory disturbance errors via user-space applications and allows the attacker to infer information about certain victim secrets stored in memory cells. Mounting this attack requires the attacker to control a user-space unprivileged process that runs on the same machine as the victim’s machine learning model.",
  "references": [
    "NIST AI 100-2e2025",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/rowhammer-attack/"
}