Cyber Posture

CVE-2022-28653

High

Published: 31 January 2025

Published
31 January 2025
Modified
26 August 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0019 41.1th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-28653 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Canonical Apport. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 41.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SC-6 (Resource Availability) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.
Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

prevent

Directly remediates the flaw permitting unlimited disk consumption in /var/crash through timely patching and flaw correction.

prevent

Limits disk resource availability by user, process, or directory to prevent exhaustion of /var/crash from unauthorized consumption.

prevent

Implements denial-of-service protections at network entry points to mitigate remotely exploitable resource exhaustion attacks.

NVD Description

Users can consume unlimited disk space in /var/crash

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2022-28653 is a vulnerability that allows users to consume unlimited disk space in the /var/crash directory. The issue carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H), indicating high-impact availability disruption with no confidentiality or integrity effects. No specific software or component is detailed in the available information, and it maps to NVD-CWE-noinfo.

Remote attackers require no privileges or user interaction to exploit this over the network with low complexity. Successful exploitation enables denial-of-service by filling the /var/crash directory with unlimited data, potentially exhausting disk resources and disrupting system operations.

The primary reference is the official CVE record at https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-28653, published on 2025-01-31. No specific mitigation or patch details are provided in the available data.

Details

CWE(s)

Affected Products

canonical
apport
≤ 2.21.0

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References