Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-29974

Medium

Published: 09 December 2024

Published
09 December 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0019 40.8th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-29974 is a medium-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Dfir (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 40.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

AMI (aka American Megatrends) NTFS driver 1.0.0 (fixed in late 2021 or early 2022) has a buffer overflow. This driver is, for example, used in certain ASUS devices.

CWE(s)
CWE-120

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Dfir
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-120

Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.

References