Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2022-49288

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-49288 is a high-severity Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) PCM component, specifically affecting concurrent preallocation changes via proc files. This flaw allows a local attacker with low privileges to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the CVSS score is 7.8, its EPSS score is very low, and there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.14.279CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.15, < 4.19.243CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.20, < 5.4.193CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.5, < 5.10.109CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.11, < 5.15.32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
20.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0028 is in the 56th 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: kernel-0:4.18.0-425.3.1.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel-0:5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel-rt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-49288Moderate

kernel: ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent prealloc proc writes

Feb 26, 2025

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/37b12c16beb6f6c1c3c678c1aacbc46525c250f7
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/51fce708ab8986a9879ee5da946a2cc120f1036d
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/5ed8f8e3c4e59d0396b9ccf2e639711e24295bb6
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/69534c48ba8ce552ce383b3dfdb271ffe51820c3
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/a21d2f323b5a978dedf9ff1d50f101f85e39b3f2
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/b560d670c87d7d40b3cf6949246fa4c7aa65a00a
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/e14dca613e0a6ddc2bf6e360f16936a9f865205b
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/e7786c445bb67a9a6e64f66ebd6b7215b153ff7d
Patch