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CVE-2022-0669

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-0669 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in DPDK, affecting products like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Open vSwitch. A malicious vhost-user master can continuously send VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD / VHOST_USER_SET_INFLIGHT_FD messages with an excessive number of file descriptors, exhausting the vhost-user slave's resources. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (MEDIUM), this local attack requires low privileges and leads to high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 20.02, < 22.03CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:data_plane_development_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
19.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:data_plane_development_kit:19.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
19.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:data_plane_development_kit:19.11:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
19.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:data_plane_development_kit:19.11:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
19.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:data_plane_development_kit:19.11:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
20.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0028 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 15,932 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: openvswitch2.15-0:2.15.0-99.el8fdp
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: openvswitch2.16-0:2.16.0-74.el8fdp
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: openvswitch2.13-0:2.13.0-180.el8fdp
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/dpdk-base-rhel8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Fast Datapath for RHEL 7Fixed in: dpdk
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: dpdk

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-0669Moderate

dpdk: sending vhost-user-inflight type messages could lead to DoS

Apr 29, 2022

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2022-0669
Third Party Advisory
bugs.dpdk.org / show_bug.cgi
PatchVendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / DPDK/dpdk/commit/af74f7db384ed149fe42b21dbd7975f8a54ef227
PatchThird Party Advisory
security-tracker.debian.org / tracker/CVE-2022-0669
PatchThird Party Advisory