Is CVE-2024-7881 actively exploited?

CVE-2024-7881 has no public evidence of in-the-wild exploitation as of 2025-12-18.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2024-7881?

CVE-2024-7881 has a CVSS score of 5.1 (MEDIUM severity). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

How do I patch CVE-2024-7881?

Patch guidance is available from arm security advisories. CVEDatabase generates AI-assisted remediation guidance on demand for CVE-2024-7881.

CVE-2024-7881 - remediation guidance & executive summary

Q: Which products are affected by CVE-2024-7881?

9 products: arm c1-premium firmware, arm c1-pro firmware, arm c1-ultra firmware, arm cortex-x3 firmware, arm cortex-x4 firmware, and 4 more.

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 Metrics

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 Action: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: low
Integrity: low
Availability: none
Weaknesses: CWE-203

Metadata

Primary Vendor: ARM
Published: 1/28/2025
Last Modified: 12/18/2025
Source: NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

Affected Products

arm : c1-premium_firmwarearm : c1-pro_firmwarearm : c1-ultra_firmwarearm : cortex-x3_firmwarearm : cortex-x4_firmwarearm : cortex-x925_firmwarearm : neoverse-v2_firmwarearm : neoverse-v3_firmwarearm : neoverse-v3ae_firmware

Remediation Guidance

Executive Summary

View on NIST NVD