Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-38983

Critical

Published: 14 October 2022

Published
14 October 2022
Modified
15 May 2025
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 0.0076 73.7th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-38983 is a critical-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Huawei Emui. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 26.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The BT Hfp Client module has a Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerability.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in arbitrary code execution.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

huawei
emui
11.0.1, 12.0.0
huawei
harmonyos
2.0, 2.1

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-416

Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.

References