CVE-2022-23960
5.6
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.23%
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.
How to fix CVE-2022-23960
To remediate CVE-2022-23960, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 4.13.4-r3 or later
- —upgrade to 5.10.106-1 or later
Is CVE-2022-23960 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 4.13.4-r3
- from 0, < 5.10.106-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |