CVE-2022-0492

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0492
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-0492.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-0492
Aliases
Downstream
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Published
2022-03-03T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-07-07T08:50:57.533465525Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s cgroupreleaseagentwrite in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups v1 releaseagent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-287"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/0xxx/CVE-2022-0492.json",
    "cna_assigner": "redhat"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Events
Introduced
dfd42facf1e4ada021b939b4e19c935dcdd55566
Last affected
dfd42facf1e4ada021b939b4e19c935dcdd55566
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "kernel 5.17 rc3"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "kernel 5.17 rc3"
        }
    ],
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

kernel 5.*
kernel 5.17 rc3
v5.*
v5.17-rc3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-0492.json"