Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-44068

High

Published: 07 October 2024

Published
07 October 2024
Modified
17 June 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0070 72.4th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-44068 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Samsung Exynos 9820 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 27.6% 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 m2m scaler driver in Samsung Mobile Processor and Wearable Processor Exynos 9820, 9825, 980, 990, 850,and W920. A Use-After-Free in the mobile processor leads to privilege escalation.

CWE(s)
CWE-416

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

samsung
exynos 9820 firmware
all versions
samsung
exynos 9825 firmware
all versions
samsung
exynos 980 firmware
all versions
samsung
exynos 990 firmware
all versions
samsung
exynos 850 firmware
all versions
samsung
exynos w920 firmware
all versions

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.

SI-16 Memory Protection
addresses: CWE-416

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

References