Op Tee
CVE-2022-46152
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Array index validation
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| Impact | CVSS score of 8.2 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, high privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.41%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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OP-TEE Trusted OS is the secure side implementation of OP-TEE project, a Trusted Execution Environment. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.2), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.
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A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-129. OP-TEE Trusted OS is the secure side implementation of OP-TEE project, a Trusted Execution Environment. Versions prior to 3.19.0, contain an Improper Validation of Array Index vulnerability. The function cleanup_shm_refs() is called by both entry_invoke_command() and entry_open_session(). The commands OPTEE_MSG_CMD_OPEN_SESSION and OPTEE_MSG_CMD_INVOKE_COMMAND can be executed from the normal world via an OP-TEE SMC. This function is not validating the num_params argument, which is only limited to OPTEE_MSG_MAX_NUM_PARAMS (127) in the function get_cmd_buffer(). Therefore, an attacker in the normal world can craft an SMC call that will cause out-of-bounds reading in cleanup_shm_refs and potentially freeing of fake-objects in the function mobj_put(). A normal-world attacker with permission to execute SMC instructions may exploit this flaw. Maintainers believe this problem permits local privilege escalation from the normal world to the secure world. Version 3.19.0 contains a fix for this issue. There are no known workarounds. Affected products include: Trustedfirmware Op-Tee. Version information: prior to 3.19.0.
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DescriptionGitHub Advisory
OP-TEE Trusted OS is the secure side implementation of OP-TEE project, a Trusted Execution Environment. Versions prior to 3.19.0, contain an Improper Validation of Array Index vulnerability. The function cleanup_shm_refs() is called by both entry_invoke_command() and entry_open_session(). The commands OPTEE_MSG_CMD_OPEN_SESSION and OPTEE_MSG_CMD_INVOKE_COMMAND can be executed from the normal world via an OP-TEE SMC. This function is not validating the num_params argument, which is only limited to OPTEE_MSG_MAX_NUM_PARAMS (127) in the function get_cmd_buffer(). Therefore, an attacker in the normal world can craft an SMC call that will cause out-of-bounds reading in cleanup_shm_refs and potentially freeing of fake-objects in the function mobj_put(). A normal-world attacker with permission to execute SMC instructions may exploit this flaw. Maintainers believe this problem permits local privilege escalation from the normal world to the secure world. Version 3.19.0 contains a fix for this issue. There are no known workarounds.
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Affected Products (CPE)GitHub Advisory
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Linaro/OP-TEE OP-TEE 3.3.0 and earlier is affected by: Buffer Overflow. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnera
An unprotected memory-access operation in optee_os in TrustedFirmware Open Portable Trusted Execution Environment (OP-TE
Linaro/OP-TEE OP-TEE 3.3.0 and earlier is affected by: Buffer Overflow. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnera
Linaro/OP-TEE OP-TEE 3.3.0 and earlier is affected by: Buffer Overflow. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnera
Linaro/OP-TEE OP-TEE 3.3.0 and earlier is affected by: Buffer Overflow. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnera
Linaro/OP-TEE OP-TEE Prior to version v3.4.0 is affected by: Boundary checks. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this v
Linaro/OP-TEE OP-TEE 3.3.0 and earlier is affected by: Boundary crossing. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulne
In Linaro OP-TEE before 3.7.0, by using inconsistent or malformed data, it is possible to call update and final cryptogr
LibTomCrypt through 1.18.1 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden N
Out-of-bounds read and write in OP-TEE OS PKCS#11 Trusted Application (versions 3.13.0-4.10.0) allows authenticated loca
Secure-world heap corruption in OP-TEE OS through 4.10.0 allows a malicious Trusted Application to write attacker-contro
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