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CVE-2022-23822

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-23822 describes a physical attack vulnerability in Xilinx Zynq-7000 and Zynq-7000S SoCs and their firmware. An attacker can bypass authentication in the First Stage Boot Loader (FSBL) to load malicious images, potentially enabling further attacks like decryption oracle functionality. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 6.8 (Medium), indicating a physical attack vector with low complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and a patch is anticipated in the 2022.1 release.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2022.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xilinx:zynq-7000s_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2022.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:xilinx:zynq-7000_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.8MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
16.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0025 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 1,531 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

github.com / Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/master/lib/sw_apps/zynq_fsbl
Third Party Advisory
support.xilinx.com / s/article/76974
Vendor Advisory