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CVE-2022-4964

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-4964 describes a medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) in Ubuntu's pipewire-pulse snap, allowing unauthorized microphone access even when the audio-record snap interface is not explicitly granted. This local vulnerability (AV:L, AC:L, PR:L) could lead to high confidentiality impact (C:H) without user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:ubuntu_pipewire-pulse:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
20.2%
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 76th 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-2022-4964Moderate

pipewire: grants microphone access even when the snap interface for audio-record

Jan 24, 2024

References

bugs.launchpad.net / ubuntu/+source/pipewire/+bug/1995707
ExploitIssue Tracking
cve.mitre.org / cgi-bin/cvename.cgi
Third Party Advisory
gitlab.freedesktop.org / pipewire/pipewire/-/merge_requests/1779
Issue TrackingPatch
gitlab.freedesktop.org / pipewire/wireplumber/-/merge_requests/567
Issue TrackingPatch