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CVE-2022-39828

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-09-05 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

sign_pFwInfo in Samsung mTower through 0.3.0 has a missing check on the return value of EC_KEY_set_private_key, leading to a denial of service.

Affected products

• Samsung Mtower: through 0.3.0

References

• https://github.com/Samsung/mTower/blob/18f4b592a8a973ce5972f4e2658ea0f6e3686284/tools/fwinfogen.c#L193
• https://github.com/Samsung/mTower/issues/76
• https://www.openssl.org/docs/manmaster/man3/EC_KEY_set_private_key.html
• https://github.com/Samsung/mTower/blob/18f4b592a8a973ce5972f4e2658ea0f6e3686284/tools/fwinfogen.c#L193
• https://github.com/Samsung/mTower/issues/76
• https://www.openssl.org/docs/manmaster/man3/EC_KEY_set_private_key.html

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