Security advisory

{
  "id": "d71b3bdda9567cf991e20f6a47b5f506404dd854902967fe691feab5bd11826b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-44940",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2022-44940",
    "summary": "Patchelf v0.9 was discovered to contain an out-of-bounds read via the function modifyRPath at src/patchelf.cc.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-44940",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2022-44940",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2022-44940",
        "GHSA-5pcj-3m26-w633",
        "PYSEC-2022-43144",
        "PYSEC-2022-43151"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/nixos/patchelf",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "44b7f9583ffe0ee09c4da8bd996ef9a6a0017e1a"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "44b7f9583ffe0ee09c4da8bd996ef9a6a0017e1a"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:patchelf_project:patchelf:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.9"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.9"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.9"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-44940.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:39.465787068Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/44xxx/CVE-2022-44940.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44940",
        "https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/pull/419"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/44xxx/CVE-2022-44940.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-44940",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 506975,
  "published_at": "2022-12-19T00:00:00+00:00"
}