CVE-2022-40514
Published: 12 February 2023
Summary
CVE-2022-40514 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Qualcomm Sdx55 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 47.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-43789
Vulnerability details
Memory corruption due to buffer copy without checking the size of input in WLAN Firmware while processing CCKM IE in reassoc response frame.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.
Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.