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CVE-2022-38181

High CVSS 8.8 Known exploited

Published 2022-10-25 · last changed 2026-06-17 · added to CISA KEV 2023-03-30

This one is being exploited in the wild.

CISA added CVE-2022-38181 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2023-03-30. Federal agencies are required to remediate it on a deadline. If you have affected machines, this is the class of finding that moves ahead of the rest of the queue.

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2022-38181, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

The Arm Mali GPU kernel driver allows unprivileged users to access freed memory because GPU memory operations are mishandled. This affects Bifrost r0p0 through r38p1, and r39p0; Valhall r19p0 through r38p1, and r39p0; and Midgard r4p0 through r32p0.

Sources

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H