CVE-2022-22265
Samsung Mobile Devices Use-After-Free Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 9 October 2023). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
An improper check or handling of exceptional conditions in NPU driver prior to SMR Jan-2022 Release 1 allows arbitrary memory write and code execution.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.39% probability · 33th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 18 September 2023 · due 9 October 2023
- Weakness
- CWE-703
- Affected
- google/android
- Source
- mobile.security@samsung.com
EPSS 0.4% since 30 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
CISA notes
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb?year=2022&month=1; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22265
References
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.