Security advisory

{
  "id": "854edd8bf1bc1ad7ca01f4415a59b440dec598d7c2170ad2317e8b4b10a93ecb",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-0492",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2022-0492",
    "summary": "A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s cgroup_release_agent_write in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups v1 release_agent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-0492",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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      "id": "CVE-2022-0492",
      "aliases": [
        "A-224859358",
        "CVE-2022-0492",
        "PUB-A-224859358"
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
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      "affected": [
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              "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git",
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                }
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              "database_specific": {
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                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
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          ],
          "versions": [
            "kernel 5.17 rc3"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-0492.json"
          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:24.379394286Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=24f6008564183aa120d07c03d9289519c2fe02af",
        "https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-0492",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/0xxx/CVE-2022-0492.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0492",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220419-0002/",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5095",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051505",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00011.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-287"
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        "cna_assigner": "redhat",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/0xxx/CVE-2022-0492.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-0492",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 490933,
  "published_at": "2022-03-03T00:00:00+00:00"
}