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Vulnerability details: VCID-rcxk-qvqu-y3fj
Vulnerability ID VCID-rcxk-qvqu-y3fj
Aliases CVE-2022-44840
Summary binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in find_section_in_set() in readelf.c
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 7.0
Risk 3.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
System Score Found at
cvssv3 7.8 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2022-44840.json
epss 0.00024 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-44840
epss 0.00024 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-44840
epss 0.00024 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-44840
epss 0.00024 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-44840
epss 0.00024 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-44840
epss 0.00024 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-44840
epss 0.00024 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-44840
epss 0.00024 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-44840
cvssv3.1 7.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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
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)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

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none

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none

required

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changed

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none

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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 0.06597
EPSS Score 0.00024
Published At April 2, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:56:31.276981+00:00 RedHat Importer Import https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2022-44840.json 38.0.0