optee-os — security advisory

{
  "id": "18c2c6df1441043e216cc7e23a0edc663c9a4802608196094241f754da65b23a",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40290",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40290",
    "summary": "OP-TEE is a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) designed as companion to a non-secure Linux kernel running on Arm; Cortex-A cores using the TrustZone technology. Starting in version 3.16.0 and prior to 4.11.0, a user-after-free (UAF) race condition exists in the shared memory teardown logic of FF-A within OP-TEE SPMC/SP flows. This only applies when OP-TEE is configured as an SPMC for S-EL0 SPs, that is, with `CFG_SECURE_PARTITION=y`. The function `sp_mem_remove()`, responsible for freeing entries in `smem->receivers` and `smem->regions`, fails to acquire the global `sp_mem_lock` before performing the `free()` operations. Concurrently, other code paths, such as `sp_mem_get_receiver()`, iterate over these same lists without holding a lock, or, like `sp_mem_is_shared()`, iterate while holding the lock but are not serialized against the unprotected `free()` in `sp_mem_remove()`. This creates a cross-thread race where a thread iterating the list can acquire a pointer to an entry (e.g., `struct sp_mem_map_region` or `struct sp_mem_receiver`), and then another thread calls `sp_mem_remove()`, freeing the object. When the first thread resumes and dereferences the pointer, it results in a Use-After-Free vulnerability. Version 4.11.0 fixes the issue.",
    "evidence": "osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40290",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "optee-os",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "4.5.0-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "4.5.0-2",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "4.7.0-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "optee-os",
          "evidence": "/affected/1/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "4.8.0-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "4.10.0-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "4.10.0-2",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/versions"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "optee-os",
          "evidence": "/affected/2/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "4.7.0-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/2/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "4.8.0-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/2/versions"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40290",
      "aliases": [
        "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40290"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        },
        {
          "type": "Ubuntu",
          "score": "medium"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "optee-os",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/optee-os?arch=source&distro=questing",
            "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:25.10"
          },
          "versions": [
            "4.5.0-1",
            "4.5.0-2",
            "4.7.0-1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40290.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "binaries": [
              {
                "binary_name": "optee-os",
                "binary_version": "4.7.0-1"
              }
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "optee-os",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/optee-os?arch=source&distro=stonking",
            "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:26.10"
          },
          "versions": [
            "4.8.0-1",
            "4.10.0-1",
            "4.10.0-2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40290.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "binaries": [
              {
                "binary_name": "optee-os",
                "binary_version": "4.10.0-2"
              }
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "optee-os",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/optee-os?arch=source&distro=resolute",
            "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:26.04:LTS"
          },
          "versions": [
            "4.7.0-1",
            "4.8.0-1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40290.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "binaries": [
              {
                "binary_name": "optee-os",
                "binary_version": "4.8.0-1"
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-17T12:58:53.656693829Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2026-40290"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-40290",
        "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40290",
        "https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os/security/advisories/GHSA-332c-xr93-849m"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2026-40290",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 359141,
  "published_at": "2026-06-03T18:16:00+00:00"
}