OP-TEE OS 4.10.0 Use-After-Free via Trusted Application Loader TA_FLAG_CONCURRENT
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-416 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
OP-TEE OS through 4.10.0, fixed in commit 8794043, contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the Trusted Application loader that allows attackers with the ability to load a signed Trusted Application to corrupt secure-world kernel memory by setting the TA_FLAG_CONCURRENT flag in a user TA signed header. Attackers can cause two concurrent sessions to operate on the same shared context without locking, corrupting the uctx->vm_info.regions list during memref parameter mapping and unmapping to free vm_region nodes still in use, resulting in a use-after-free in S-EL1 secure-world kernel memory.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-71968
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-p84g-83m7-53p6
References
Patch 1
Other 1
More OP-TEE vulnerabilities
- TI-2021-09019 In Arm Trusted Firmware M through 1.2, the NS world may trigger a system halt, an… KEVCVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5
- TI-2022-22796 OP-TEE Trusted OS vulnerable to Improper Validation of Array Index in the cleanup_shm_refs function CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-29072 OP-TEE has a Use-After-Free race in FF-A shared-memory teardown CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
- TI-2025-29404 REE userspace code can panic TAs, leading to fTPM PCR reset and data disclosure CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.9
- TI-2023-21925 OP-TEE double free in shdr_verify_signature CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4
- TI-2026-33359 OP-TEE vulnerable to ECDH private key recovery CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.7
Sources
- CVE-2026-71968 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-71968 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-p84g-83m7-53p6 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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