Cortex A72

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First CVE: Jan 4, 2018 · Active for 8 years

8
Total CVEs
More Total CVEs than 85% of tracked products
1.3
Avg CVEs / Year
Higher CVE frequency than 55% of tracked products
5.6
Avg CVSS
Higher Avg CVSS than 16% of tracked products
0.0%
KEV Rate
Bottom 1%

Trends Over Time

The number and severity of CVEs published that impact Cortex A72 over time

Volume of CVEsAvg CVSS Base Score
First CVE
Jan 4, 2018
8 years ago
Most Recent CVE
Jan 22, 2025
548 days ago

CVE Severity & Scoring

Cortex A728 CVEs
All CVEs352,231 CVEs
MediumHigh
Attack Vector
Local7 (87.5%)
Network1 (12.5%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
Physical0 (0.0%)
Adjacent Network0 (0.0%)
Attack Complexity
Low5 (62.5%)
High3 (37.5%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
User Interaction
None8 (100.0%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
Required0 (0.0%)
Privileges Required
Low6 (75.0%)
High0 (0.0%)
None2 (25.0%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)

Top CVEs

Signals from CVEs in this product scope (8 CVEs).

8 CVEs · Highest risk first

CVEPublishedCVSSRiskKEVExploit
Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side
Jan 4, 20185.683NOYES
The AES instructions on the ARMv8 platform do not have an algorithm that is "intrinsically resistant" to side-channel attacks. NOTE: the vendor reportedly offers the position "whil
Jan 10, 20237.524NONO
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
Mar 13, 20225.621NONO
Arm Armv8-A core implementations utilizing speculative execution past unconditional changes in control flow may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with loc
Jun 8, 20205.521NONO
Potential floating point value injection in all supported CPU products, in conjunction with software vulnerabilities relating to speculative execution with incorrect floating point
Jun 9, 20215.520NONO
Potential speculative code store bypass in all supported CPU products, in conjunction with software vulnerabilities relating to speculative execution of overwritten instructions, m
Jun 9, 20215.520NONO
Spectre BHB is a variant of Spectre-v2 in which malicious code uses the shared branch history (stored in the CPU BHB) to influence mispredicted branches in the victim's hardware co
Mar 10, 20224.718NONO
In certain circumstances, an issue in Arm Cortex-A57, Cortex-A72 (revisions before r1p0), Cortex-A73 and Cortex-A75 may allow an adversary to gain a weak form of control over the v
Jan 22, 20255.117NONO

Exploit Exposure

Signals from CVEs in this product scope (8 CVEs).

CISA KEV
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Metasploit
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Nuclei
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
ExploitDB
1 CVE
12.5% of CVEs· 89th percentile

Social Chatter

Signals from CVEs in this product scope (8 CVEs).

Media Mentions

Signals from CVEs in this product scope (8 CVEs).

Top CNAs Publishing CVEs For Cortex A72

Top CWEs

Versions

No cataloged versions.