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CVE-2022-1729

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-366

Description

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.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 3.2.85 before 3.3; from 3.16.40 before 3.17; from 3.18.54 before 3.19; from 4.0.0 before 4.9.316; from 4.10 before 4.14.281; from 4.15 before 4.19.245 — fixed in 3.17, 3.19, 3.3, 4.14.281, 4.19.245, 4.9.316
• NetApp Hci Baseboard Management Controller: h300s, h410s, h500s, h700s

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 3.17, 3.19, 3.3, 4.14.281. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3ac6487e584a1eb54071dbe1212e05b884136704
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230214-0006/
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/20/2
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3ac6487e584a1eb54071dbe1212e05b884136704
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230214-0006/
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/20/2

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