Local privilege escalation via ignored CPU-write flag
Published Mar 3, 2022 · Updated Oct 21, 2025
Memory protection bypass in Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver allows local users to write read-only pages through an imported GPU mapping. The kbase_jd_user_buf_pin_pages function checks only GPU-write permission when pinning imported user pages and ignores the CPU-write flag, so a CPU-writable Mali object can retain a read-only shared page. A local unprivileged process with Mali device access can exploit the mismatched mapping to modify page-cache content and escalate privileges.
Summary
What happened
Memory protection bypass in Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver allows local users to write read-only pages through an imported GPU mapping. The kbase_jd_user_buf_pin_pages function checks only GPU-write permission when pinning imported user pages and ignores the CPU-write flag, so a CPU-writable Mali object can retain a read-only shared page. A local unprivileged process with Mali device access can exploit the mismatched mapping to modify page-cache content and escalate privileges.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-22706
- Published
- Mar 3, 2022
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-119, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 3, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 21, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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