CVE-2022-2211

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 9
Modified
Published: 12 Jul 2022, 20:33
Last modified:03 Aug 2024, 00:32

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
26/100
CVSS Score
6.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.2% LOW
0% probability +0.05%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

12 Jul 2022, 20:33
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Aug 2024, 00:32
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

A vulnerability was found in libguestfs. This issue occurs while calculating the greatest possible number of matching keys in the get_keys() function. This flaw leads to a denial of service, either by mistake or malicious actor.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.20%• Percentile: 41%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-120•Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

    The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer.

Affected Systems

  • libguestfs•libguestfs

    na

  • redhat•enterprise_linux

    8.0 | 9.0

References (1)