CVE-2022-3262

FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-3262 describes a high-severity flaw in Red Hat OpenShift where pods configured with a "ClusterFirst" DNSPolicy can incorrectly resolve hostnames, potentially leading to confidentiality and availability impacts. This vulnerability, rated 8.1 CVSS, is network-exploitable with low complexity and requires low privileges. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		4.9CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift:4.9:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

5.2

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.72%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

50.0%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-25

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0072 is in the 42nd percentile among its peer group of 17,822 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference

View patch

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-3262Moderate

openshift: insecure default DNSPolicy for pods

Sep 21, 2022

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi

Issue TrackingVendor Advisory