CVE-2022-38999 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The AOD module has the improper update of reference count vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect data integrity, confidentiality, and availability.

Published: 2022-09-16

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Huawei

HarmonyOS

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`2.0`	affected	—

Huawei

EMUI

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`12.0.0`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:huawei:emui:12.0.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:huawei:harmonyos:2.0:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-41545	The AOD module has the improper update of reference count vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect data integrity, confidentiality, and availability.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00247.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2022/9/
https://device.harmonyos.com/en/docs/security/update/security-bulletins-phones-202209-0000001392278845

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00152}`	epss `{'score': 0.00162}`

Subscriptions

Huawei Emui Harmonyos

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: huawei

Published: 2022-09-16T17:57:38.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-03T11:10:32.489Z

Reserved: 2022-08-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-38999

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-16T18:15:17.860

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:17:20.660

Link: CVE-2022-38999

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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