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CVE-2022-40516

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-40516 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability affecting Qualcomm products, stemming from a stack-based buffer overflow in the core component. With a CVSS score of 7.8, it allows a local attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity. While no public exploits or active exploitation have been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the potential for significant system compromise warrants attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:aqt1000_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:ar8031_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:ar8035_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:csr8811_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:csra6620_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.4HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0087 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

qualcomm.com / company/product-security/bulletins/january-2023-bulletin
Vendor Advisory