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CVE-2022-49173

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-49173 addresses a vulnerability in the Linux kernel's SPI FSI driver, where polling loops for data transfer status could lead to an infinite loop if hardware enters a bad state. This local vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.5, indicating a low attack complexity and privilege requirement, with a potential impact of high availability loss. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.7, < 5.16.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.17, < 5.17.2CPE 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
0.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
17.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0026 is in the 70th 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 (2)

redhatCVE-2022-49173Moderate

kernel: spi: fsi: Implement a timeout for polling status

Feb 26, 2025
microsoft2025-Feb/CVE-2022-49173Moderate

spi: fsi: Implement a timeout for polling status

Feb 11, 2025

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/89b35e3f28514087d3f1e28e8f5634fbfd07c554
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/d4982ceb137e6ecd2b466a6de639790a148cf19a
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/dac1438f347d3b8cf892105c94e254f29c5764de
Patch