CVE-2022-22706
Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver Unspecified Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 20 April 2023). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver allows a non-privileged user to achieve write access to read-only memory pages. This affects Midgard r26p0 through r31p0, Bifrost r0p0 through r35p0, and Valhall r19p0 through r35p0.
- 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
- 1.06% probability · 65th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 30 March 2023 · due 20 April 2023
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- arm/bifrost gpu kernel driver · arm/midgard gpu kernel driver · arm/valhall gpu kernel driver
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.1% 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 updates per vendor instructions. https://developer.arm.com/Arm%20Security%20Center/Mali%20GPU%20Driver%20Vulnerabilities; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22706
References
- https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updatesVendor Advisory
- https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/mali-gpu-kernel-driverVendor Advisory
- https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updatesVendor Advisory
- https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/mali-gpu-kernel-driverVendor Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-22706US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.