CVE-2022-22071
Actively exploited. CVE-2022-22071 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-12-05) — exploitation has been observed in the wild, and US federal agencies are required to remediate it under BOD 22-01. Treat patching as urgent.
Multiple Qualcomm chipsets contain a use-after-free vulnerability when process shell memory is freed using IOCTL munmap call and process initialization is in progress.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- A use-after-free vulnerability occurs when process shell memory is freed during initialization, leading to potential exploitation.
- Who is affected
- Users of multiple Qualcomm chipsets are affected by this vulnerability.
- Urgency
- Immediate remediation is necessary due to active exploitation and critical severity.
- Action
- Apply the security updates provided by Qualcomm.
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Exploitation outlook
- Exploitation confirmedAlready exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 36% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (1)
- criticalexploitedCVE-2022-22071: Qualcomm Multiple Chipsets Use-After-Free Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2023-12-05
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