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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-13844

Arm Armv8-A core implementations utilizing speculative execution past unconditional changes in control flow may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka "straight-line…

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.51%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.51%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Arm Armv8-A core implementations utilizing speculative execution past unconditional changes in control flow may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka "straight-line speculation."

CVSS 3.1
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.51% probability · 42th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-203
Affected
arm/cortex-a32 firmware · arm/cortex-a35 firmware · arm/cortex-a53 firmware · arm/cortex-a57 firmware · arm/cortex-a72 firmware · arm/cortex-a73 firmware · arm/cortex-a34 firmware · opensuse/leap
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.