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CVE-2022-50169

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-50169 is a Linux kernel information leak vulnerability affecting the wil6210 Wi-Fi driver. The flaw, rated 7.1 HIGH CVSS, allows a local attacker with low privileges to potentially disclose sensitive information and cause a denial of service due to improper buffer initialization. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.17, < 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

7.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
11.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 41st 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-50169Moderate

kernel: wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix info leak in wil_write_file_wmi()

Jun 18, 2025

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/05ceda14ef7c73104e709c414c3680d8a59f51d4
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/074e865b37da55aa87baa16d68b96896f85f8adb
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/4615458db7793fadc6d546ac3564b36819e77a22
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/60c9983425167ec5073c628d83a6875760d18059
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/67470920cd3f3cb38699b1ad23234f96bead4d21
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/789edc1af9c1a2293956e8534bfef3d18d629de9
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/7a4836560a6198d245d5732e26f94898b12eb760
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/c1216e699a1ce83ea005510844bd7508d34c6cef
Patch