CVE-2022-41578 (GCVE-0-2022-41578)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-14 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-14 20:30
VLAI
Summary
The MPTCP module has an out-of-bounds write vulnerability.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause root privilege escalation attacks implemented by modifying program information.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • Out-of-bounds write vulnerability
  • CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Huawei HarmonyOS Affected: 2.0
Affected: 2.1
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Huawei EMUI Affected: 12.0.0
Affected: 11.0.1
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