Attacker Value
Unknown
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Exploitability
Unknown
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User Interaction
None
Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
Local
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CVE-2022-23960

Disclosure Date: March 13, 2022 •
CVE-2022-23960 CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.6
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Description

Certain Arm Cortex and Neoverse processors through 2022-03-08 do not properly restrict cache speculation, aka Spectre-BHB. An attacker can leverage the shared branch history in the Branch History Buffer (BHB) to influence mispredicted branches. Then, cache allocation can allow the attacker to obtain sensitive information.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.6 Medium
Impact Score:
4
Exploitability Score:
1.1
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
High
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Changed
Confidentiality (C):
High
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
None

General Information

Offensive Application
Unknown
Utility Class
Unknown
Ports
Unknown
OS
Unknown
Vulnerable Versions
n/a
Prerequisites
Unknown
Discovered By
Unknown
PoC Author
Unknown
Metasploit Module
Unknown
Reporter
Unknown

Vendors

  • arm,
  • debian,
  • xen

Products

  • cortex-a57 firmware -,
  • cortex-a65 firmware -,
  • cortex-a65ae firmware -,
  • cortex-a710 firmware -,
  • cortex-a72 firmware -,
  • cortex-a73 firmware -,
  • cortex-a75 firmware -,
  • cortex-a76 firmware -,
  • cortex-a76ae firmware -,
  • cortex-a77 firmware -,
  • cortex-a78 firmware -,
  • cortex-a78ae firmware -,
  • cortex-r7 firmware -,
  • cortex-r8 firmware -,
  • cortex-x1 firmware -,
  • cortex-x2 firmware -,
  • debian linux 10.0,
  • debian linux 9.0,
  • neoverse n1 firmware -,
  • neoverse n2 firmware -,
  • neoverse-e1 firmware -,
  • neoverse-v1 firmware -,
  • xen -
Technical Analysis