# CVE-2024-10929: Spectre-BSE

> Adversaries can manipulate branch history on specific Arm Cortex CPUs to potentially leak sensitive information via side-channel attacks.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 22 Jul 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-q8x5-7v94-rwpv

## What is CVE-2024-10929?

CVE-2024-10929 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arm Cortex-A57, published on 22 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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 victim's branch history.

Weakness: CWE-203 (Observable Discrepancy), CWE-1423 (Exposure of Sensitive Information caused by Shared Microarchitectural Predictor State that Influences Transient Execution)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10929?

It affects 4 products.


Products: Arm Cortex-A57 Firmware, Arm Cortex-A72 Firmware, Arm Cortex-A73 Firmware, Arm Cortex-A75 Firmware.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-10929?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-10929 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-10929 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10929 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Arm Cortex-A57

- [CVE-2022-23960](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-23960/): Information disclosure in n/a (medium 5.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-10929 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-10929 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arm Cortex-A57, published on 22 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10929 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Arm Cortex-A57. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10929/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10929/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10929
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10929
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-10929

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10929/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.