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Vulnerability · Published Dec 10, 2024 · Assigned by Arm

CVE-2024-5660

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in Cortex-78C from Arm. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 47% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 53.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Use of Hardware Page Aggregation (HPA) and Stage-1 and/or Stage-2 translation on Cortex-A77, Cortex-A78, Cortex-A78C, Cortex-A78AE, Cortex-A710, Cortex-X1, Cortex-X1C, Cortex-X2, Cortex-X3, Cortex-X4, Cortex-X925, Neoverse V1, Neoverse V2, Neoverse V3, Neoverse V3AE, Neoverse N2 may permit bypass of Stage-2 translation and/or GPT protection.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20arm-trusted-firmware2.8.32-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-5660
Alpine:v3.21arm-trusted-firmware2.8.32-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-5660
Debian:12arm-trusted-firmwareno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2024-5660
Debian:13arm-trusted-firmware2.12.1+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-5660
Debian:14arm-trusted-firmware2.12.1+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-5660
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSarm-trusted-firmwareno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-5660
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSarm-trusted-firmwareno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-5660
Ubuntu:25.10arm-trusted-firmwareno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-5660
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSarm-trusted-firmwareno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-5660
Ubuntu:26.10arm-trusted-firmwareno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-5660

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Arm Cortex-A77 0
Arm Neoverse V1 0
Arm Cortex-A78AE 0
Arm Cortex-78C 0
Arm Cortex-X1C 0
Arm Cortex-A78 0
Arm Cortex-X1 0
Arm Neoverse N2 0
Arm Cortex-A710 0
Arm Cortex-X2 0
Arm Neoverse V2 0
Arm Cortex-X3 0
Arm Neoverse V3AE 0
Arm Neoverse V3 0
Arm Cortex-X4 0
Arm Cortex-X925 0

Weakness: CWE-668 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References