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CVE-2021-28664

68
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-28664 is a critical privilege escalation and denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Arm Mali GPU kernel drivers (Bifrost, Valhall, and Midgard series). An unprivileged user can achieve read/write access to read-only memory pages, leading to memory corruption. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over a network with low privileges and no user interaction, potentially resulting in full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. This flaw is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in the KEV catalog and significant media coverage, despite no public exploit code being readily available.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= r0p0, < r29p0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arm:bifrost_gpu_kernel_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= r8p0, < r31p0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arm:midgard_gpu_kernel_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= r19p0, < r29p0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arm:valhall_gpu_kernel_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Nov 3, 2021
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0546 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 17,823 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
developer.arm.com / Arm%20Security%20Center/Mali%20GPU%20Driver%20Vulnerabilities
Vendor Advisory
developer.arm.com / support/arm-security-updates
Vendor Advisory
developer.arm.com / support/arm-security-updates/mali-gpu-kernel-driver
Vendor Advisory