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CVE-2022-3169

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-3169 is a denial-of-service flaw in the Linux kernel, affecting various Debian and Fedora distributions. An authenticated local attacker can trigger a PCIe link disconnect by sending consecutive NVME_IOCTL_RESET and NVME_IOCTL_SUBSYS_RESET requests to the NVMe driver. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a low attack complexity and no confidentiality or integrity impact, but a high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:4.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
13.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0023 is in the 61st 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-3169Moderate

Kernel: Request to NVME_IOCTL_RESET and NVME_IOCTL_SUBSYS_RESET may cause a DOS.

Oct 20, 2021

References

bugzilla.kernel.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00031.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory