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CVE-2022-50465

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-50465 is a medium-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem, specifically within the fast-commit journal. It involves a memory leak where uninitialized data at the end of fast-commit journal blocks could be written to disk. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring low privileges, and primarily impacting availability (A:H) rather than confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.10, < 5.10.163CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.11, < 5.15.87CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.16, < 6.0.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.1, < 6.1.4CPE 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
0.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
4.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0015 is in the 27th 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-2022-50465Low

kernel: Linux kernel ext4: Information Disclosure via uninitialized memory leak in fast-commit journal

Oct 1, 2025

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/594bc43b410316d70bb42aeff168837888d96810
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/7c1fb65e8ce85c281d2cba9c236f9edbbc4eaca6
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/871800770d7f2f952c7249ad52485c3564dab44e
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/b8b7922374b00a44137e5bcdd46ef86c8b065f27
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/d9ba03eb03dc2dccb5450de388ea46bdcaaf8348
Patch