What is CVE-2022-38155?

CVE-2022-38155 is a high-severity vulnerability in Samsung Mtower, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-08-11.

How severe is CVE-2022-38155?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Samsung Mtower

CVE-2022-38155

TEE_Malloc in Samsung mTower through 0.3.0 allows a trusted application to achieve Excessive Memory Allocation via a large len value, as demonstrated by a Numaker-PFM-M2351 TEE kernel crash.

EPSS: 0.009 (55.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Samsung Mtower
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-38155?: CVE-2022-38155 is a high-severity vulnerability in Samsung Mtower, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-08-11.
How severe is CVE-2022-38155?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.