What is CVE-2022-40280?

CVE-2022-40280 is a high-severity vulnerability in Samsung Tizenrt, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-09-08.

How severe is CVE-2022-40280?

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

Vulnerability in Samsung Tizenrt

CVE-2022-40280

An issue was discovered in Samsung TizenRT through 3.0_GBM (and 3.1_PRE). createDB in security/provisioning/src/provisioningdatabasemanager.c has a missing sqlite3_close after sqlite3_open_v2, leading to a denial of service.

Published 2022-09-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (68.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 68th percentile — 68.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.013 · change: +0.002

Affected products

Samsung Tizenrt — versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

github.com/Samsung/TizenRT/issues/5627 (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.sqlite.org/c3ref/open.html (Third Party Advisory)
github.com/Samsung/TizenRT/blob/f8f776dd183246ad8890422c1ee5e8f33ab2aaaf/extern… (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-40280?: CVE-2022-40280 is a high-severity vulnerability in Samsung Tizenrt, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-09-08.
How severe is CVE-2022-40280?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.