Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-46891

High

Published: 17 January 2023

Published
17 January 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0036 58.8th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-46891 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Arm Bifrost Gpu Kernel Driver. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 41.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in the Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver. There is a use-after-free. A non-privileged user can make improper GPU processing operations to gain access to already freed memory. This affects Midgard r13p0 through r32p0, Bifrost r1p0 through…

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r40p0, and Valhall r19p0 through r40p0.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

arm
bifrost gpu kernel driver
r1p0 — r40p0
arm
midgard gpu kernel driver
r13p0 — r32p0
arm
valhall gpu kernel driver
r19p0 — r40p0

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