What is CVE-2021-44828?

CVE-2021-44828 is a high-severity vulnerability in Arm Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2022-01-14.

How severe is CVE-2021-44828?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2021-44828 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Buffer overflow in Arm Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver

CVE-2021-44828

Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver (Midgard r26p0 through r30p0, Bifrost r0p0 through r34p0, and Valhall r19p0 through r34p0) allows a non-privileged user to achieve write access to read-only memory, and possibly obtain root privileges, corrupt memory, and modify the memory of other processes.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.003 (18.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

Public proof-of-concept exploits

1337eng/arm_

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-44828?: CVE-2021-44828 is a high-severity vulnerability in Arm Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2022-01-14.
How severe is CVE-2021-44828?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2021-44828 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.