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Vulnerability details: VCID-3rvj-49kb-jbg3
Vulnerability ID VCID-3rvj-49kb-jbg3
Aliases CVE-2022-44840
Summary Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in file readelf.c.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 7.0
Risk 3.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
System Score Found at
cvssv3 7.8 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2022-44840.json
epss 0.00021 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-44840
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cvssv3.1 7.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 7.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44840
ssvc Track* https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29732
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2022-44840.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-44840
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-44840
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
2234004 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234004
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2022-44840 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44840
show_bug.cgi?id=29732 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29732
USN-6381-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6381-1/
USN-6581-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6581-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2022-44840.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44840
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:R/2024-10-03T14:15:25Z/ Found at https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29732
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.03895
EPSS Score 0.00021
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:36:45.173764+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/6381-1/ 37.0.0