CVE-2022-4968

FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-4968 describes a vulnerability in Netplan versions prior to 1.0 that allows local users to access the private key of WireGuard configurations. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.5) has a low attack complexity and requires local user privileges, potentially leading to a complete compromise of confidentiality for the WireGuard private key. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:canonical:netplan::::::::

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:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

2.0

Impact Score

4.0

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.26%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

17.9%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-26

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0026 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 15,937 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