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CVE-2022-0492

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CVSS
7.8 High
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Risk score
100.0
Known exploited
CISA KEV
Published
2022-03-03
Status
Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-287

Coverage 4

Advisories and references