Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-2785

Medium

Published: 23 September 2022

Published
23 September 2022
Modified
14 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0011 29.5th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-2785 is a medium-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 29.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

There exists an arbitrary memory read within the Linux Kernel BPF - Constants provided to fill pointers in structs passed in to bpf_sys_bpf are not verified and can point anywhere, including memory not owned by BPF. An attacker with CAP_BPF…

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can arbitrarily read memory from anywhere on the system. We recommend upgrading past commit 86f44fcec22c

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

linux
linux kernel
≤ 5.19.4

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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