# 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.

CVE record · `CVE-2024-7881`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2024-7881`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 5.1 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** Arm
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-1422](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1422.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-1422](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-1422.md)
- **Technologies:** [Arm Neoverse V2](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/arm-neoverse-v2.md) · [Arm Neoverse V3](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/arm-neoverse-v3.md) · [Arm Neoverse V3AE](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/arm-neoverse-v3ae.md) · [Arm Cortex-X3](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/arm-cortex-x3.md) · [Arm Cortex-X4](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/arm-cortex-x4.md) · [Arm Cortex-X925](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/arm-cortex-x925.md) · [Arm C1-Pro](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/arm-c1-pro.md) · [Arm C1-Ultra](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/arm-c1-ultra.md) · [Arm C1-Premium](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/arm-c1-premium.md)
- **Published:** 28 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 18 Nov 2025
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Arm) at 28 Jan 2025, 15:01 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Arm. Product: Neoverse V2.
  - affected: `0`
  - Other versions: affected
- Vendor: Arm. Product: Neoverse V3.
  - affected: `0`
  - Other versions: affected
- Vendor: Arm. Product: Neoverse V3AE.
  - affected: `0`
  - Other versions: affected
- Vendor: Arm. Product: Cortex-X3.
  - affected: `0`
  - Other versions: affected
- Vendor: Arm. Product: Cortex-X4.
  - affected: `0`
  - Other versions: affected
- Vendor: Arm. Product: Cortex-X925.
  - affected: `0`
  - Other versions: affected
- Vendor: Arm. Product: C1-Pro.
  - affected: `0`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Arm. Product: C1-Ultra.
  - affected: `0`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Arm. Product: C1-Premium.
  - affected: `0`
  - Other versions: unaffected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 5.1 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`, from ADP (CISA-ADP)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0020, the 9th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 28 Jan 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2024-7881](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7881)
- [NVD: CVE-2024-7881](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7881)

### References from the CNA

- <https://developer.arm.com/Arm%20Security%20Center/Arm%20CPU%20Vulnerability%20CVE-2024-7881>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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