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CVE-2022-49415

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-49415 is a refcount leak vulnerability in the Linux kernel's IPMI IPMB driver, specifically affecting the ipmi_ipmb_probe function. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) could lead to a denial of service (A:H) through local access (AV:L, PR:L) with low attack complexity (AC:L). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.18, < 5.18.3CPE 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
0.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
12.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0022 is in the 55th 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-2022-49415

kernel: ipmi:ipmb: Fix refcount leak in ipmi_ipmb_probe

Feb 26, 2025

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/a508e33956b538e034ed5df619a73ec7c15bda72
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/f22068357acc268148bd55ce77f0a3e5c86701b4
Patch