CVE-2022-40008 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

SWFTools commit 772e55a was discovered to contain a heap-buffer overflow via the function readU8 at /lib/ttf.c.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00476.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Swftools	Swftools

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-43333	SWFTools commit 772e55a was discovered to contain a heap-buffer overflow via the function readU8 at /lib/ttf.c.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/matthiaskramm/swftools/issues/188

History

Wed, 28 May 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-09-20T19:14:19.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-28T16:05:44.990Z

Reserved: 2022-09-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-40008

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T12:07:42.974Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-20T20:15:10.510

Modified: 2025-05-28T16:15:27.700

Link: CVE-2022-40008

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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