000037574 - Design Advisory for Versal: Spectre-Branch Status Eviction (BSE) vulnerability on ARM Processors - According to the ARM security team, Spectre-BSE exploits a micro-architectural mechanism that equips an adversary with a weak form of control over the victim’s branch history despite existing protections. This can lead to exploitative control of indirect branches and potentially to data exfiltration. This issue affects ARM Cortex®-A72 (revisions prior to r1p0), Cortex-A73 and Cortex-A75. Products in the Versal family are impacted by this vulnerability as they utilize the ARM Cortex-A72 r0p3-00rel0 processor.

Release Date

2025-04-10

Revision

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