Vulnerability in Arm China Star-Mc1

CVE-2021-35465

Certain Arm products before 2021-08-23 do not properly consider the effect of exceptions on a VLLDM instruction. A Non-secure handler may have read or write access to part of a Secure context. This affects Arm Cortex-M33 r0p0 through r1p0, Arm Cortex-M35P r0, Arm Cortex-M55 r0p0 through r1p0, and Arm China STAR-MC1 (in the STAR SE configuration).

EPSS: 0.003 (22.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.4 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-35465?
CVE-2021-35465 is a low-severity vulnerability in Arm China Star-Mc1. CVSS score: 3.4/10. Published 2021-08-23.
How severe is CVE-2021-35465?
Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2021-35465 known to be exploited?
2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.