CVE-2022-44455 Memory corruption in OpenHarmony
An unprivileged malicious application can exploit buffer overflows in appspawn and nwebspawn services to execute code or crash applications on OpenHarmony devices.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-44455?
CVE-2022-44455 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Openatom Openharmony, published on 8 Dec 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The appspawn and nwebspawn services within OpenHarmony-v3.1.2 and prior versions were found to be vulnerable to buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An unprivileged malicious application would be able to gain code execution within any application installed on the device or cause application crash.
Weakness: CWE-120
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-44455?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Openatom Openharmony, Openharmony Openharmony.
How do I fix CVE-2022-44455?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-44455 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2022-44455 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-44455 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Openatom Openharmony
- CVE-2025-0303 Liteos_a has a buffer overflow vulnerability
- CVE-2025-0304 Liteos_a has an use after free vulnerability
- CVE-2024-47398 Liteos_a has an out-of-bounds write vulnerability
- CVE-2024-10074 Liteos_a has an use after free vulnerability
- CVE-2024-41157 Liteos-A has an use after free vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gm3h-4v52-g4fr.