Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-40279

HighPublic PoC

Published: 29 September 2022

Published
29 September 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0078 74.2th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-40279 is a high-severity Unchecked Return Value (CWE-252) vulnerability in Samsung Tizenrt. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 25.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in Samsung TizenRT through 3.0_GBM (and 3.1_PRE). l2_packet_receive_timeout in wpa_supplicant/src/l2_packet/l2_packet_pcap.c has a missing check on the return value of pcap_dispatch, leading to a denial of service (malfunction).

CWE(s)
CWE-252

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

samsung
tizenrt
1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1

Mitigating Controls

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

References