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CVE-2022-38181

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.

CVSS 8.8 (HIGH) KEV: KNOWN CATALOG

Attention and evidence

HYPE SCORE
2.5/10
REALITY · THREAT PRIORITY
8.4/10
General review priority; not probability

Evidence confidence: Exploitation recorded

Why this priority?
  • Recorded exploitation baseline: +7.00
  • Technical severity: CVSS 8.8: +1.32
  • Fresh EPSS: 18.46%: +0.09

General review priority, not probability, victim count or asset-specific risk. A range covers missing CVSS/EPSS inputs within the current evidence state.

Sources: 10 documents and public datasets.

Hype components

Headline sample (25%)
50/100
Press, 30 days (60%)
20/100
Grounded branding (15%)
0/100
HYPE TOTAL24/100

Sources and documents

CyberSecurityNews
Press · 13 Oct 2026, 07:00 · Amazon Fire TV Cube 3 Exploit Enables Root Access and Bootloader Unlock - CyberSecurityNews
Hackread
Press · 13 Oct 2026, 07:00 · Amazon Fire TV Cube Rooted Using Four-Year-Old Arm Mali Vulnerability - Hackread
GBHackers News
Press · 13 Oct 2026, 07:00 · Amazon Fire TV Cube Security Flaws Allow Bootloader Unlocking and Permanent Root Access - GBHackers News
Tech Digest
Press · 12 Oct 2026, 07:00 · Amazon Fire TV Cube hacked using 4-year old vulnerability - Tech Digest
The Hacker News
Press · 11 Jun 2024, 07:00 · Arm Warns of Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability in Mali GPU Drivers - The Hacker News
See all 10 source documents
blog.google
Press · 27 Jul 2023, 07:00 · The Ups and Downs of 0-days: A Year in Review of 0-days Exploited In-the-Wild in 2022 - blog.google
The Record from Recorded Future News
Press · 29 Mar 2023, 07:00 · Spyware campaigns using zero-days found in Italy, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, UAE - The Record from Recorded Future News
blog.google
Press · 29 Mar 2023, 07:00 · Spyware vendors use 0-days and n-days against popular platforms - blog.google
SecurityWeek
Press · 24 Jan 2023, 08:00 · Arm Vulnerability Leads to Code Execution, Root on Pixel 6 Phones - SecurityWeek
The GitHub Blog
Press · 23 Jan 2023, 08:00 · Pwning the all Google phone with a non-Google bug - The GitHub Blog

Score evolution

● Hype   ● Reality

Earlier evidence-support scores are retained in history; this chart shows only the current priority definition.

First record: hype 2.5 · reality 8.4 (2026-11-02 15:13). The curve appears once the score changes.

Public exploit evidence

2

Public exploit entries / repo candidates

See 2 repos with metrics
RepositoryStarsForksLanguageUpdated
Pro-me3us/CVE_2022_38181_Raven129C03 Dec 2024, 17:45
Pro-me3us/CVE_2022_38181_Gazelle53C29 Jun 2023, 01:56
Evidence context and dated references

Reality is general threat/review priority, combining observed exploitation, CVSS severity and fresh EPSS. Evidence confidence is separate. This is not calibrated risk, a victim count or an asset-specific assessment. A range reflects missing numeric inputs.

Evidence in context

Confidence in exploitation evidence
Exploitation recorded
Priority basis
Recorded exploitation; CVSS 8.8; EPSS 18.5%
Attention, last 30 days
4 distinct story titles; 4 press documents; 1 publisher domains.
Technical potential
network access, low privileges, no user interaction.
Observed activity
Exploitation recorded in CISA KEV.
Known scale
Not quantified.
Evidence confidence basis
Trusted exploitation confirmation

Score evaluated: 2026-11-05 13:58:42.431717+00:00 · EPSS snapshot: 2026-11-05T12:03:04Z

Source event timeline
Published
25 Oct 2022, 00:00
First press mention
23 Jan 2023, 08:00
Added to the CISA KEV catalog
30 Mar 2023, 00:00
Latest press mention
13 Oct 2026, 07:00
Score calculated
05 Nov 2026, 13:58
PoCs on GitHub
2 repositories