One embodiment provides a silent data corruption (SDC) mitigation circuitry. The SDC mitigation circuitry includes a comparator circuitry and an SDC mitigation logic. The comparator circuitry is to compare a successful decoded codeword and a corresponding received codeword, the successful decoded codeword having been deemed a success by an error correction circuitry. The SDC mitigation logic is to reject the successful decoded codeword if a distance between the corresponding received codeword and the successful decoded codeword is greater than or equal to a threshold.