A flaw was found in unrestricted eBPF usage by the BPF_BTF_LOAD, leading to a possible out-of-bounds memory write in the Linux kernel’s BPF subsystem due to the way a user loads BTF. This flaw allows a local user to crash or escalate their privileges on the system.
CVE-2022-0500
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-03-26. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.8
- EG Score
- 7.8HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 35EG Risk 35/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity78% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation0.4% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines. - EPSS PROB
- 0.4%
- EPSS %ILE
- 28th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (7.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.4% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-20). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
March 25, 2022
Last Modified
October 8, 2026
Advisory Details (9)
Auto-updated Oct 4, 20262044578 – (CVE-2022-0500) CVE-2022-0500 kernel: Linux ebpf logic vulnerability leads to critical memory read and write gaining root privileges
Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044578bpf: Convert PTR_TO_MEM_OR_NULL to composable types. - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cf9f2f8d62eca810afbd1ee6cc0800202b000e57bpf: Replace PTR_TO_XXX_OR_NULL with PTR_TO_XXX | PTR_MAYBE_NULL - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c25b2ae136039ffa820c26138ed4a5e5f3ab3841bpf: Replace ARG_XXX_OR_NULL with ARG_XXX | PTR_MAYBE_NULL - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=48946bd6a5d695c50b34546864b79c1f910a33c1bpf: Replace RET_XXX_OR_NULL with RET_XXX | PTR_MAYBE_NULL - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3c4807322660d4290ac9062c034aed6b87243861bpf: Make per_cpu_ptr return rdonly PTR_TO_MEM. - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=34d3a78c681e8e7844b43d1a2f4671a04249c821bpf: Add MEM_RDONLY for helper args that are pointers to rdonly mem. - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=216e3cd2f28dbbf1fe86848e0e29e6693b9f0a20bpf: Introduce MEM_RDONLY flag - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=20b2aff4bc15bda809f994761d5719827d66c0b4Vendor Advisories for CVE-2022-0500(6)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2024:10262Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update
- RHSA-2024:2950Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2024:3138Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- RHSA-2024:0724Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update
- CVE-2022-0500Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)High
A flaw was found in unrestricted eBPF usage by the BPF_BTF_LOAD leading to a possible out-of-bounds memory write in the Linux kernel’s BPF subsystem due to the way a user loads BTF. This flaw allows a local user to crash or escalate their privileges on the system.
- GHSA-2vh7-8384-w472GitHub Security AdvisoriesHigh
A flaw was found in unrestricted eBPF usage by the BPF_BTF_LOAD, leading to a possible out-of...
Patch Availability(6)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | linux-image-lowlatency (5.15.0.41.40) @ jammy | 2026-10-21 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-tools-5.15.0-1013-intel-iotg (5.15.0-1013.17) @ jammy | 2026-10-21 | ubuntu |
| redhat | kernel-0:4.18.0-477.81.1.el8_8 | 2024-11-26 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.rt7.342.el8_10 | 2024-05-22 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-0:4.18.0-553.el8_10 | 2024-05-22 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-0:4.18.0-372.91.1.el8_6 | 2024-02-07 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | 5.10.103-1 ... 7.2~rc5-1~exp1 (496 versions) |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | — |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| linux | — |
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Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| linux | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(2)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
Data Freshness Timeline
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Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
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- 2026-10-21 08:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2vh7-8384-w472 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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- 2026-10-08 22:26 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-08 22:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2vh7-8384-w472 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
- 2026-10-08 21:31 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-08 21:31 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-10-08 21:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2vh7-8384-w472 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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