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 Branch History Buffer (BHB) to influence mispredicted branches. Then, cache allocation can allow the attacker to obtain sensitive information.
CVE-2022-23960
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score 5.6 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-03-14. NVD baseline CVSS 5.6; sources differ by 0.0.
Also known asEUVD-2022-28876 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-m7j2-567h-fvrw (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 5.6
- EG Score
- 5.6MEDIUMmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 25EG Risk 25/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity56% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.6 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation0.5% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines. - EPSS PROB
- 0.5%
- EPSS %ILE
- 42nd
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (5.6): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.6 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 5.6 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.5% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
March 13, 2022
Last Modified
October 8, 2026
Advisory Details (4)
Auto-updated Oct 8, 2026[SECURITY] [DSA 5173-1] linux security update
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5173[SECURITY] [DLA 3065-1] linux security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/07/msg00000.htmloss-security - Xen Security Advisory 398 v2 - Multiple speculative security issues
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/03/18/2Vendor Advisories for CVE-2022-23960(3)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2024:0930Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update
- RHSA-2022:7683Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- CVE-2022-23960Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)High
Arm: CVE-2022-23960 Cache Speculation Restriction Vulnerability
Patch Availability(5)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | linux-image-unsigned-5.13.0-1010-intel (5.13.0-1010.10) @ focal | 2026-10-24 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-image-lowlatency (5.13.0.35.44) @ impish | 2026-10-24 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-headers-azure-fde (5.4.0.1072.75+cvm1.18) @ focal | 2026-10-24 | ubuntu |
| redhat | kernel-0:4.18.0-372.93.1.el8_6 | 2024-02-21 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-0:4.18.0-425.3.1.el8 | 2022-11-08 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(10 across 7 ecosystems)
Debian:12(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| arm-trusted-firmware | 2.10.0+dfsg-1 ... 2.9.0+dfsg-3 (10 versions) |
| — |
| linux | — |
| — |
Debian:13(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| arm-trusted-firmware | 2.12.1+dfsg-1, 2.12.16+dfsg-1 |
| — |
| linux | — |
| — |
Debian:14(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| arm-trusted-firmware | 2.12.1+dfsg-1 |
| — |
| linux | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| xen | — |
| — |
Debian:10(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | 4.19.118-1 ... 4.19.98-1~bpo9+1 (39 versions) |
| — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | 5.10.103-1 ... 5.10.92-2 (10 versions) |
| — |
Debian:9(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | 4.9.107-1 ... 4.9.88-1~bpo8+1 (70 versions) |
| — |
Additional Vendor Advisories
(3)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 42× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 98 of 210 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 2 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 112 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
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- 2026-10-24 20:44 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-24 20:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m7j2-567h-fvrw · GitHub CVSS 5.6
- 2026-10-24 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
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- 2026-10-13 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
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- 2026-10-08 22:26 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-08 22:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m7j2-567h-fvrw · GitHub CVSS 5.6
- 2026-10-08 21:31 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 21:31 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-08 21:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-m7j2-567h-fvrw · GitHub CVSS 5.6
- 2026-10-08 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
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