Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-33288

Critical

Published: 13 April 2023

Published
13 April 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0005 15.8th percentile
Risk Priority 19 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-33288 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Qualcomm 315 5G Iot Modem Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.3 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 15.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Memory corruption due to buffer copy without checking the size of input in Core while sending SCM command to get write protection information.

CWE(s)
CWE-120

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

qualcomm
315 5g iot modem firmware
all versions
qualcomm
aqt1000 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
ar8035 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
wcn3998 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
wcn6750 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
qca6390 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
wcn685x-5 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
wcn685x-1 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
wcn785x-1 firmware
all versions
qualcomm
wcn785x-5 firmware
all versions
+118 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.

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