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CVE-2022-50122

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-50122 is a refcount leak vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ASoC mediatek mt8173-rt5650 driver, affecting Linux kernel versions. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) has a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring local privileges, and could lead to a high impact on availability. There is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.6, < 4.14.291CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.15, < 4.19.256CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.20, < 5.4.211CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.5, < 5.10.137CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.11, < 5.15.61CPE 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
0.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
10.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0020 is in the 49th 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel-0:5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: kernel-rt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-50122Low

kernel: ASoC: mediatek: mt8173-rt5650: Fix refcount leak in mt8173_rt5650_dev_probe

Jun 18, 2025

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/06ace427953f5036b64aed658f0055f65d76fd27
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/403d46971936f9f704b91cecffe66e44aa39e915
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/5ec83aa7a9e5bcca80ccd49978916feb4e0ffc07
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/79f566907d27abbd7600cebe51def5081d5796b5
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/994f2edeeb2114bb22b62741cb8fb030fc7e5441
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/e024a24fb264523149658c10c76bb363b3d0004d
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/e38e4952ac7a316c9002af30980d6aa850214474
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/efe2178d1a32492f99e7f1f2568eea5c88a85729
Patch