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CVE-2022-49010

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-49010 is a Linux kernel vulnerability affecting the coretemp hardware monitoring driver. It involves a NULL pointer dereference that occurs when coretemp_add_core() encounters an error, leading to a system crash. Rated Medium (CVSS 5.5), this local vulnerability requires low privileges and complexity, resulting in high availability impact (denial of service). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.0, < 4.9.335CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.10, < 4.14.301CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.15, < 4.19.268CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.20, < 5.4.226CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.5, < 5.10.158CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
14.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0024 is in the 63rd 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 8Fixed in: kernel-0:4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel-0:5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
View patch
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-rt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-49010Moderate

kernel: hwmon: (coretemp) Check for null before removing sysfs attrs

Oct 21, 2024

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/070d5ea4a0592a37ad96ce7f7b6b024f90bb009f
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/280110db1a7d62ad635b103bafc3ae96e8bef75c
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/7692700ac818866d138a8de555130a6e70e6ac16
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/89eecabe6a47403237f45aafd7d24f93cb973653
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/a89ff5f5cc64b9fe7a992cf56988fd36f56ca82a
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/ae6c8b6e5d5628df1c475c0a8fca1465e205c95b
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/f06e0cd01eab954bd5f2190c9faa79bb5357e05b
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/fb503d077ff7b43913503eaf72995d1239028b99
Patch