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CVE-2022-2785

MEDIUM
Published 2022-09-23T11:10:08.764Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
6.7
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.000
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.0% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.020
Higher than 2.0% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH

Description

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

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

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Affected Products

Linux Kernel

Kernel

Affected Versions:

5.14 5.18

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed MODERATE

GHSA-xhpr-rjf3-gg6p

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

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

5.0

CVSS Vector

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

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2785
WEB https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf/c/86f44fcec22c
WEB https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/T/#t

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: September 25, 2022, Modified: September 27, 2022

References

https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf/c/86f44fcec22c
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220816205517.682470-1-zhuyifei%40google.com/T/#t
Published: 2022-09-23T11:10:08.764Z
Last Modified: 2025-04-21T13:49:09.750Z
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