What is CVE-2022-20235?

CVE-2022-20235 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-01-26.

How severe is CVE-2022-20235?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Google Android

CVE-2022-20235

The PowerVR GPU kernel driver maintains an "Information Page" used by its cache subsystem. This page can only be written by the GPU driver itself, but prior to DDK 1.18 however, a user-space program could write arbitrary data to the page, leading to memory corruption issues.Product: AndroidVersions: Android SoCAndroid ID: A-259967780

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2023-01-26 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (1.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 1st percentile — 1.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Google Android
Android — versions Android SoC

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

source.android.com/security/bulletin/2023-01-01 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-20235?: CVE-2022-20235 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-01-26.
How severe is CVE-2022-20235?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.