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CVE-2022-2590

7.0 highEPSS 0.9%

High (7.0) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only shared memory mappings. This flaw allows an unprivileged, local user to gain write access to read-only memory mappings, increasing their privileges on the system.

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
0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 61% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-362
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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