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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2022-2785
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2022-2785
Aliases
Summary 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
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 6.7
ssvc Track
Reference id Reference type URL
86f44fcec22c Other https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf/c/86f44fcec22c
#t Other https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220816205517.682470-1-zhuyifei%40google.com/T/#t
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at None
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-04-21T13:36:55Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-04-21T13:36:55Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2022/2xxx/CVE-2022-2785.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2022-2785

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'total'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]