Arm Discloses Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting Neoverse and Cortex CPUs

#cybersecurity #infosec

Summary

Arm reports a critical privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-10263) affecting multiple CPU cores, including Neoverse and Cortex models, due to a timing flaw in memory permission changes. Linux kernel patches have been released to implement a software workaround.

Take Action:

You can't do much about this flaw until a software patch is released. The only thing you can do is track and update your vendor, OS, cloud image, and firmware updates as soon as they become available.

Read the full article on BeyondMachines

This article was originally published on BeyondMachines