Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2022-38181

Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver Use-After-Free Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Arm
Product Mali Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Weakness CWE-416

The vulnerability

Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver contains a use-after-free vulnerability that may allow a non-privileged user to gain root privilege and/or disclose information.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 20 April 2023 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 00:29. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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