Medium severity · published Jan 28, 2025
CVE-2024-7881
An unprivileged context can trigger a data memory-dependent prefetch engine to fetch the contents of a privileged location and consume those contents as an address that is also…
5.1
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An unprivileged context can trigger a data
memory-dependent prefetch engine to fetch the contents of a privileged location
and consume those contents as an address that is also dereferenced.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 9% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CF
C1-premium Firmware · Arm
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
CF
C1-pro Firmware · Arm
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
CF
C1-ultra Firmware · Arm
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
CF
Cortex-x3 Firmware · Arm
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
CF
Cortex-x4 Firmware · Arm
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
CF
Cortex-x925 Firmware · Arm
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
NF
Neoverse-v2 Firmware · Arm
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
NF
Neoverse-v3 Firmware · Arm
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
NF
Neoverse-v3ae Firmware · Arm
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7881
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7881
Vendor Advisory
https://developer.arm.com/Arm%20Security%20Center/Arm%20CPU%20Vulnerability%20CVE-2024-7881
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