{"cve":"CVE-2022-49870","nvd":{"published":"2025-05-01T15:16:11.937","modified":"2026-06-17T05:19:22.170","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncapabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK\n\nShifting signed 32-bit value by 31 bits is undefined, so changing\nsignificant bit to unsigned. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below:\n\nUBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in security/commoncap.c:1252:2\nleft shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int'\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n dump_stack_lvl+0x7d/0xa5\n dump_stack+0x15/0x1b\n ubsan_epilogue+0xe/0x4e\n __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1e7/0x20c\n cap_task_prctl+0x561/0x6f0\n security_task_prctl+0x5a/0xb0\n __x64_sys_prctl+0x61/0x8f0\n do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n </TASK>","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","score":7.1},"cwes":["CWE-125"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/151dc8087b5609e53b069c068e3f3ee100efa586","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27bdb134c043ff32c459d98f16550d0ffa0b3c34","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46653972e3ea64f79e7f8ae3aa41a4d3fdb70a13","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5661f111a1616ac105ec8cec81bff99b60f847ac","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b79fa628e2ab789e629a83cd211ef9b4c1a593e"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:01:22.920403922+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2022-49870","score":0.00223,"percentile":0.13002,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}