Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-36938

Critical

Published: 11 November 2022

Published
11 November 2022
Modified
01 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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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 0.0201 84.1th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-36938 is a critical-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Facebook Redex. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 15.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

DexLoader function get_stringidx_fromdex() in Redex prior to commit 3b44c64 can load an out of bound address when loading the string index table, potentially allowing remote code execution during processing of a 3rd party Android APK file.

CWE(s)
CWE-125CWE-1284

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

facebook
redex
≤ 2022-11-04

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References