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Arm vulnerabilities in CISA KEV

Arm has 9 vulnerabilities in CISA's catalogue of flaws known to be exploited, the 28th highest of any vendor. none were added in the last 12 months; none are linked to known ransomware use (0% of its entries, against 20.4% across the catalogue). CISA's median fix window for these entries is 21 days (range 14 to 21), against 21 days (range 1 to 184) across the whole catalogue. The most exploited product is Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), with 6 entries. Other frequently affected products: Mali GPU Kernel Driver (2); Trusted Firmware (1).

Catalog v2026.11.04, released 5 Nov 2026. Source CISA ↗. All KEV entries.

$ ./kev --vendor arm --summary

Counts are computed from the catalog release on ; the 12 month window ends there.

┌─ total entries

9

in CISA KEV

┌─ first added

2021-11-03

earliest entry

┌─ latest added

2024-06-12

most recent entry

┌─ last 12 months

0

entries added

┌─ ransomware use

0 of 9

0% linked to ransomware

┌─ distinct products

3

affected products

$ awk -F, {print $1} /var/log/kev/arm.log | uniq -c

Entries by the year CISA added them.

Year Entries added Of which ransomware
2021 3 0
2023 5 0
2024 1 0

$ sort /var/log/kev/arm.log | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -5

The five products with the most entries in the catalogue.

  1. Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 6 entries
  2. Mali GPU Kernel Driver 2 entries
  3. Trusted Firmware 1 entry

$ kev-due-dates --vendor arm

Days between the date CISA added an entry and the due date it set, median and range. Due dates apply to US federal agencies; for everyone else they are a patch-first ranking signal.

┌─ Arm

21 days (range 14 to 21)

median and range in days

┌─ whole catalogue

21 days (range 1 to 184)

median and range in days

$ grep -o 'CWE-[0-9]*' /var/log/kev/arm.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -3

Weakness types CISA records for these entries (9 of 9 have at least one CWE).

$ grep -ril 'Arm' /var/log/news | head -5

Our reporting that names Arm or one of its KEV CVE ids, newest first.

┌─ /var/log/news

grep: no news story mentions Arm yet

Patch Week pages with these entries

No Patch Week page covers this vendor yet.

$ wc -l ./arm.kev · 9 rows

Descriptions: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue

  1. CVE-2024-4610

    Mali GPU Kernel Driver

    Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver Use-After-Free Vulnerability

    due 2024-07-03 · CWE-416

    $ cat CVE-2024-4610.txt

    Description. Arm Bifrost and Valhall GPU kernel drivers contain a use-after-free vulnerability that allows a local, non-privileged user to make improper GPU memory processing operations to gain access to already freed memory.

    Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

  2. CVE-2023-4211

    Mali GPU Kernel Driver

    Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver Use-After-Free Vulnerability

    due 2023-10-24 · CWE-416

    $ cat CVE-2023-4211.txt

    Description. Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver contains a use-after-free vulnerability that allows a local, non-privileged user to make improper GPU memory processing operations to gain access to already freed memory.

    Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

  3. CVE-2021-29256

    Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

    Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver Use-After-Free Vulnerability

    due 2023-07-28 · CWE-416

    $ cat CVE-2021-29256.txt

    Description. Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver contains a use-after-free vulnerability that may allow a non-privileged user to gain root privilege and/or disclose information.

    Required action. Apply updates per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if updates are unavailable.

  4. CVE-2023-26083

    Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

    Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver Information Disclosure Vulnerability

    due 2023-04-28 · CWE-401

    $ cat CVE-2023-26083.txt

    Description. Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver contains an information disclosure vulnerability that allows a non-privileged user to make valid GPU processing operations that expose sensitive kernel metadata.

    Required action. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

  5. CVE-2022-22706

    Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

    Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver Unspecified Vulnerability

    due 2023-04-20 · CWE-119

    $ cat CVE-2022-22706.txt

    Description. Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows a non-privileged user to achieve write access to read-only memory pages.

    Required action. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

  6. CVE-2022-38181

    Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

    Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver Use-After-Free Vulnerability

    due 2023-04-20 · CWE-416

    $ cat CVE-2022-38181.txt

    Description. Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver contains a use-after-free vulnerability that may allow a non-privileged user to gain root privilege and/or disclose information.

    Required action. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

  7. CVE-2021-27562

    Trusted Firmware

    Arm Trusted Firmware Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability

    due 2021-11-17 · CWE-787

    $ cat CVE-2021-27562.txt

    Description. Arm Trusted Firmware contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability allowing the non-secure (NS) world to trigger a system halt, overwrite secure data, or print out secure data when calling secure functions under the non-secure processing environment (NSPE) handler mode. This vulnerability affects Yealink Device Management servers.

    Required action. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

  8. CVE-2021-28663

    Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

    Arm Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Use-After-Free Vulnerability

    due 2021-11-17 · CWE-416

    $ cat CVE-2021-28663.txt

    Description. Arm Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) kernel driver contains a use-after-free vulnerability that may allow a non-privileged user to make improper operations on GPU memory to gain root privilege, and/or disclose information.

    Required action. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

  9. CVE-2021-28664

    Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

    Arm Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Unspecified Vulnerability

    due 2021-11-17 · CWE-787

    $ cat CVE-2021-28664.txt

    Description. Arm Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) kernel driver contains an unspecified vulnerability that may allow a non-privileged user to gain write access to read-only memory, gain root privilege, corrupt memory, and modify the memory of other processes.

    Required action. Apply updates per vendor instructions.