CVE-2022-40761 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The function tee_obj_free in Samsung mTower through 0.3.0 allows a trusted application to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by invoking the function TEE_AllocateOperation with a disturbed heap layout, related to utee_cryp_obj_alloc.

Published: 2022-09-16

Score: 7.5 High

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

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:samsung:mtower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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-2022-44028	The function tee_obj_free in Samsung mTower through 0.3.0 allows a trusted application to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by invoking the function TEE_AllocateOperation with a disturbed heap layout, related to utee_cryp_obj_alloc.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

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 0.00821.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/Samsung/mTower/blob/efd36709306a9afcca5b4782499d01be0c7a02a5/tee/tee/tee_obj.c#L109
https://github.com/Samsung/mTower/blob/efd36709306a9afcca5b4782499d01be0c7a02a5/tee/tee/tee_svc_cryp.c#L1248
https://github.com/Samsung/mTower/issues/83

History

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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00529}`	epss `{'score': 0.00565}`

Subscriptions

Samsung Mtower

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-09-16T21:35:50.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-03T12:28:41.535Z

Reserved: 2022-09-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-40761

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-16T22:15:12.517

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:22:00.490

Link: CVE-2022-40761

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-1284

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