Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in ARM products - CVE-2024-7881

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in ARM products - CVE-2024-7881

Published: March 29, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU106251
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-7881
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to improperly imposed security restrictions. An unprivileged context can trigger a data memory-dependent prefetch engine to fetch the contents of a privileged location. A local user or process can read  privileged data and escalate privileges on the system.


Affected software

Cortex-X3
Cortex-X4
Cortex-X925
Neoverse V2
Neoverse V3
Neoverse V3AE
Samsung Mobile Firmware
openEuler
Anolis OS
Google Android
arm-trusted-firmware
arm-trusted-firmware-armv8
arm-trusted-firmware-armv8-doc

How to mitigate CVE-2024-7881

Install updates from vendor's website.

Samsung Mobile Firmware - update to SMR-SEP-2025
arm-trusted-firmware - update to 2.12.1-1
arm-trusted-firmware-armv8 - update to 2.12.1-1
arm-trusted-firmware-armv8 - update to 2.12.1-2
arm-trusted-firmware-armv8-doc - update to 2.12.1-2
Google Android - addressed in versions 13 2025-09-05, 14 2025-09-05, 15 2025-09-05, 16 2025-09-05

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