Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-7881

Medium

Published: 28 January 2025

Published
28 January 2025
Modified
18 December 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0012 31.2th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-7881 is a medium-severity Observable Discrepancy (CWE-203) vulnerability in Arm C1-Premium Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.1 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 31.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

arm
c1-premium firmware
all versions
arm
c1-pro firmware
all versions
arm
c1-ultra firmware
all versions
arm
cortex-x3 firmware
all versions
arm
cortex-x4 firmware
all versions
arm
cortex-x925 firmware
all versions
arm
neoverse-v2 firmware
all versions
arm
neoverse-v3 firmware
all versions
arm
neoverse-v3ae firmware
all versions

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-203

Misdirection can normalize or falsify responses to eliminate observable discrepancies that aid reconnaissance.

addresses: CWE-203

Observable discrepancies in system behavior can be modulated to create covert storage or timing channels; the required analysis detects and constrains such avenues.

addresses: CWE-203

Prevents attackers from using observable differences in error responses to infer internal system details or state.

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