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CVE-2022-1729

7.0 highEPSS 0.3%

High (7.0). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A race condition was found the Linux kernel in perf_event_open() which can be exploited by an unprivileged user to gain root privileges. The bug allows to build several exploit primitives such as kernel address information leak, arbitrary execution, etc.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.0 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 26% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-362, CWE-366
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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