Summary

000037574 - Design Advisory for Versal: Spectre-Branch Status Eviction (BSE) vulnerability on ARM Processors

Release Date
2025-04-10
Revision
1.0 English

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.