Buffer overflow in Openatom Openharmony

CVE-2022-44455

The appspawn and nwebspawn services within OpenHarmony-v3.1.2 and prior versions were found to be vulnerable to buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An unprivileged malicious application would be able to gain code execution within any application installed on the device or cause application crash.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (11.1th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 11th percentile — 11.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2022-44455: held from 0.002 to 0.002.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-44455?
CVE-2022-44455 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openatom Openharmony, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2022-12-08.
How severe is CVE-2022-44455?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.