CVE-2022-39829: Samsung Mtower

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is a NULL pointer dereference in aes256_encrypt in Samsung mTower through 0.3.0 due to a missing check on the return value of EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new.

Affected products

• Samsung Mtower: up to and including 0.3.0

Published 2022-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.