CVE-2025-22842 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Details

CVE-2025-22842
Vulnerability Scoring

3.3

/10

Moderate Risk

Exploiting CVE-2025-22842 requires specific conditions, leading to a moderate security impact.

Attack Complexity Details

Attack Complexity: Low
Exploits can be performed without significant complexity or special conditions.
Attack Vector: Local
Vulnerability requires local system access.
Privileges Required: Low
Some privileges are necessary to exploit the vulnerability.
Scope: Unchanged
Exploit remains within the originally vulnerable component.
User Interaction: None
No user interaction is necessary for exploitation.

CVE-2025-22842 Details

Status: Analyzed

Last updated: 🕝 16 Oct 2025, 14:57 UTC
Originally published on: 🕒 07 Apr 2025, 03:15 UTC

Time between publication and last update: 192 days

CVSS Release: version 3

CVSS3 Source

scy@openharmony.io

CVSS3 Type

Secondary

CVSS3 Vector

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

CVE-2025-22842 Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2025-22842: in OpenHarmony v5.0.2 and prior versions allow a local attacker cause DOS through out-of-bounds read.

Assessing the Risk of CVE-2025-22842

Access Complexity Graph

The exploitability of CVE-2025-22842 depends on two key factors: attack complexity (the level of effort required to execute an exploit) and privileges required (the access level an attacker needs).

Exploitability Analysis for CVE-2025-22842

CVE-2025-22842 presents an accessible attack vector with minimal effort required. Restricting access controls and implementing security updates are critical to reducing exploitation risks.

Understanding AC and PR

A lower complexity and fewer privilege requirements make exploitation easier. Security teams should evaluate these aspects to determine the urgency of mitigation strategies, such as patch management and access control policies.

Attack Complexity (AC) measures the difficulty in executing an exploit. A high AC means that specific conditions must be met, making an attack more challenging, while a low AC means the vulnerability can be exploited with minimal effort.

Privileges Required (PR) determine the level of system access necessary for an attack. Vulnerabilities requiring no privileges are more accessible to attackers, whereas high privilege requirements limit exploitation to authorized users with elevated access.

CVSS Score Breakdown Chart

Above is the CVSS Sub-score Breakdown for CVE-2025-22842, illustrating how Base, Impact, and Exploitability factors combine to form the overall severity rating. A higher sub-score typically indicates a more severe or easier-to-exploit vulnerability.

CIA Impact Analysis

Below is the Impact Analysis for CVE-2025-22842, showing how Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability might be affected if the vulnerability is exploited. Higher values usually signal greater potential damage.

Confidentiality: None
CVE-2025-22842 has no significant impact on data confidentiality.
Integrity: None
CVE-2025-22842 poses no threat to data integrity.
Availability: Low
CVE-2025-22842 may slightly degrade system performance without fully affecting service availability.

CVE-2025-22842 References

External References

https://gitee.com/openharmony/security/blob/master/zh/security-disclosure/2025/2025-04.md

CWE Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

CAPEC Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification

Overread Buffers CAPEC-540 An adversary attacks a target by providing input that causes an application to read beyond the boundary of a defined buffer. This typically occurs when a value influencing where to start or stop reading is set to reflect positions outside of the valid memory location of the buffer. This type of attack may result in exposure of sensitive information, a system crash, or arbitrary code execution.

Vulnerable Configurations

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