Certain Arm Cortex and Neoverse processors through 2022-03-08 do not properly restrict cache speculation, aka Spectre-BHB. An attacker can…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.50% · top 57% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.6.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (5)

• https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/speculative-processor-vulnerability (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20220318 Xen Security Advisory 398 v2 - Multiple speculative security issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20220701 [SECURITY] [DLA 3065-1] linux security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• DSA-5173 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 8 Oct 2026, 21:14 UTC.