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CVE-2022-21151

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-21151 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting certain Intel processors, as well as products from Debian and NetApp. It stems from processor optimization issues that could lead to the removal or modification of security-critical code, potentially enabling information disclosure. An authenticated local attacker could exploit this with low attack complexity. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:intel:celeron_n6210_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:intel:celeron_n4500_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:intel:celeron_n4505_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:intel:celeron_n5100_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:intel:celeron_n5105_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 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 (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: microcode_ctl-4:20220809-1.el9
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: microcode_ctl
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: microcode_ctl
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: microcode_ctl

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-21151Moderate

hw: cpu: information disclosure in certain Intel processors

May 10, 2022

References

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20220826-0003
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2022/dsa-5178
Third Party Advisory
intel.com / content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00617.html
Vendor Advisory