Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-33279

Critical

Published: 12 February 2023

Published
12 February 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0031 54.5th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-33279 is a critical-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Qualcomm Ar9380 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 45.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Memory corruption due to stack based buffer overflow in WLAN having invalid WNM frame length.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

qualcomm
ar9380 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
csr8811 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ipq4019 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ipq4028 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ipq4029 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ipq5010 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ipq5018 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ipq5028 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ipq6000 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ipq6010 firmware
all versions
+64 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

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.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References