CVE-2022-49338

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2025-10-21. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
5.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

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

net/mlx5e: CT: Fix cleanup of CT before cleanup of TC ct rules

CT cleanup assumes that all tc rules were deleted first, and so is free to delete the CT shared resources (e.g the dr_action fwd_action which is shared for all tuples). But currently for uplink, this is happens in reverse, causing the below trace.

CT cleanup is called from: mlx5e_cleanup_rep_tx()->mlx5e_cleanup_uplink_rep_tx()-> mlx5e_rep_tc_cleanup()->mlx5e_tc_esw_cleanup()-> mlx5_tc_ct_clean()

Only afterwards, tc cleanup is called from: mlx5e_cleanup_rep_tx()->mlx5e_tc_ht_cleanup() which would have deleted all the tc ct rules, and so delete all the offloaded tuples.

Fix this reversing the order of init and on cleanup, which will result in tc cleanup then ct cleanup.

[ 9443.593347] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 206774 at drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_action.c:1882 mlx5dr_action_destroy+0x188/0x1a0 [mlx5_core] [ 9443.593349] Modules linked in: act_ct nf_flow_table rdma_ucm(O) rdma_cm(O) iw_cm(O) ib_ipoib(O) ib_cm(O) ib_umad(O) mlx5_core(O-) mlxfw(O) mlxdevm(O) auxiliary(O) ib_uverbs(O) psample ib_core(O) mlx_compat(O) ip_gre gre ip_tunnel act_vlan bonding geneve esp6_offload esp6 esp4_offload esp4 act_tunnel_key vxlan ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel act_mirred act_skbedit act_gact cls_flower sch_ingress nfnetlink_cttimeout nfnetlink xfrm_user xfrm_algo 8021q garp stp ipmi_devintf mrp ipmi_msghandler llc openvswitch nsh nf_conncount nf_nat mst_pciconf(O) dm_multipath sbsa_gwdt uio_pdrv_genirq uio mlxbf_pmc mlxbf_pka mlx_trio mlx_bootctl(O) bluefield_edac sch_fq_codel ip_tables ipv6 crc_ccitt btrfs zstd_compress raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx xor xor_neon raid6_pq raid1 raid0 crct10dif_ce i2c_mlxbf gpio_mlxbf2 mlxbf_gige aes_neon_bs aes_neon_blk [last unloaded: mlx5_ib] [ 9443.593419] CPU: 2 PID: 206774 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G O 5.4.0-1023.24.gc14613d-bluefield #1 [ 9443.593422] Hardware name: https://www.mellanox.com BlueField SoC/BlueField SoC, BIOS BlueField:143ebaf Jan 11 2022 [ 9443.593424] pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO) [ 9443.593489] pc : mlx5dr_action_destroy+0x188/0x1a0 [mlx5_core] [ 9443.593545] lr : mlx5_ct_fs_smfs_destroy+0x24/0x30 [mlx5_core] [ 9443.593546] sp : ffff8000135dbab0 [ 9443.593548] x29: ffff8000135dbab0 x28: ffff0003a6ab8e80 [ 9443.593550] x27: 0000000000000000 x26: ffff0003e07d7000 [ 9443.593552] x25: ffff800009609de0 x24: ffff000397fb2120 [ 9443.593554] x23: ffff0003975c0000 x22: 0000000000000000 [ 9443.593556] x21: ffff0003975f08c0 x20: ffff800009609de0 [ 9443.593558] x19: ffff0003c8a13380 x18: 0000000000000014 [ 9443.593560] x17: 0000000067f5f125 x16: 000000006529c620 [ 9443.593561] x15: 000000000000000b x14: 0000000000000000 [ 9443.593563] x13: 0000000000000002 x12: 0000000000000001 [ 9443.593565] x11: ffff800011108868 x10: 0000000000000000 [ 9443.593567] x9 : 0000000000000000 x8 : ffff8000117fb270 [ 9443.593569] x7 : ffff0003ebc01288 x6 : 0000000000000000 [ 9443.593571] x5 : ffff800009591ab8 x4 : fffffe000f6d9a20 [ 9443.593572] x3 : 0000000080040001 x2 : fffffe000f6d9a20 [ 9443.593574] x1 : ffff8000095901d8 x0 : 0000000000000025 [ 9443.593577] Call trace: [ 9443.593634] mlx5dr_action_destroy+0x188/0x1a0 [mlx5_core] [ 9443.593688] mlx5_ct_fs_smfs_destroy+0x24/0x30 [mlx5_core] [ 9443.593743] mlx5_tc_ct_clean+0x34/0xa8 [mlx5_core] [ 9443.593797] mlx5e_tc_esw_cleanup+0x58/0x88 [mlx5_core] [ 9443.593851] mlx5e_rep_tc_cleanup+0x24/0x30 [mlx5_core] [ 9443.593905] mlx5e_cleanup_rep_tx+0x6c/0x78 [mlx5_core] [ 9443.593959] mlx5e_detach_netdev+0x74/0x98 [mlx5_core] [ 9443.594013] mlx5e_netdev_change_profile+0x70/0x180 [mlx5_core] [ 9443.594067] mlx5e_netdev_attach_nic_profile+0x34/0x40 [mlx5_core] [ 9443.594122] mlx5e_vport_rep_unload+0x15c/0x1a8 [mlx5_core] [ 9443.594177] mlx5_eswitch_unregister_vport_reps+0x228/0x298 [mlx5_core] [ 9443.594231] mlx5e_rep_remove+0x2c/0x38 ---truncated---

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5(medium)
EG Risk
29(Track)
EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track

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How it’s computed
Severity55% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
12%
KEV
Not listed

Published

February 26, 2025

Last Modified

October 21, 2025

Patch Availability(1)

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linuxKernel @ 5.18.4osv

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2022-49338?
CVE-2022-49338 is a medium vulnerability published on February 26, 2025. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: CT: Fix cleanup of CT before cleanup of TC ct rules CT cleanup assumes that all tc rules were deleted first, and so is free to delete the CT shared resources (e.g the dr_action fwd_action which is shared for all tuples).…
When was CVE-2022-49338 disclosed?
CVE-2022-49338 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on February 26, 2025, with the most recent update on October 21, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2022-49338 actively exploited?
CVE-2022-49338 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 87.7% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2022-49338?
CVE-2022-49338 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2022-49338?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2022-49338, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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