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CVE-2022-50401 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

CVSS

9.8 CRITICAL

EPSS

0.40% (top 67.10%)

CWE

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Published

2025-09-18T16:15:42.353

Last modified

2026-08-04T10:18:14.727

CVSS vector

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

01What is this vulnerability?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

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No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15fc60aa5bdcf6d5f93000d3d00579fc67632ee0
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bc8edc98bd43540dbe648e4ef91f443d6d20a24
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/707bcca9616002d204091ca7c4d1d91151104332
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b4ae8c42d2ff09ed7c5832ccce5684c55e5ed23
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a472f069ced8601979f53c13c0cf20236074ed46
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1207219a4bfa50121c9345d5d165470d0a82531
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d843ebd860c58a38e45527e8ec6516059f4c97f3
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2f9f03e4537f3fcc8fd2bdd3248530c3477a371
git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fddac3b4578d302ac9e51e7f03a9aae6254ae2a3

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