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CVE-2022-48714

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-48714 addresses a vulnerability in the Linux kernel's BPF ring buffer implementation. Specifically, it corrects an issue where KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) would incorrectly report out-of-bounds access due to the ring buffer area being incorrectly flagged as VM_ALLOC instead of VM_MAP. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.1 (HIGH), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring low privileges, and potentially leading to high confidentiality impact and high availability impact. There is currently 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
>= 5.8, < 5.10.99CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.11, < 5.15.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.16, < 5.16.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
15.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0024 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 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 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: kernel-rt
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel-rt
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: kernel

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-48714Low

kernel: bpf: Use VM_MAP instead of VM_ALLOC for ringbuf

Jun 20, 2024

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/5e457aeab52a5947619e1f18047f4d2f3212b3eb
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/6304a613a97d6dcd49b93fbad31e9f39d1e138d6
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/b293dcc473d22a62dc6d78de2b15e4f49515db56
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/d578933f6226d5419af9306746efa1c693cbaf9c
Patch