5.5

CVE-2022-50228: KVM: SVM: Don't BUG if userspace injects an interrupt with GIF=0

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50228DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50228
Published 18-06-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-50228 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.27%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 14 · Related 5
RHSA-2023:2458RHSA-2025:17797RHSA-2025:17812RHSA-2025:18932RHSA-2025:19222RHSA-2025:19268

Timeline

  1. 18-06-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Don't BUG if userspace injects an interrupt with GIF=0 Don't BUG/WARN on interrupt injection due to GIF being cleared, since it's trivial for userspace to force the situation via KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS (even if having at least a WARN there would be correct for KVM internally generated injections). kernel BUG at arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c:3386! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 15 PID: 926 Comm: smm_test Not tainted 5.17.0-rc3+ #264 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP: 0010:svm_inject_irq+0xab/0xb0 [kvm_amd] Code: <0f> 0b 0f 1f 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 80 3d ac b3 01 00 00 55 48 89 f5 53 RSP: 0018:ffffc90000b37d88 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88810a234ac0 RCX: 0000000000000006 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffc90000b37df7 RDI: ffff88810a234ac0 RBP: ffffc90000b37df7 R08: ffff88810a1fa410 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff888109571000 R14: ffff88810a234ac0 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000001821380(0000) GS:ffff88846fdc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f74fc550008 CR3: 000000010a6fe000 CR4: 0000000000350ea0 Call Trace: <TASK> inject_pending_event+0x2f7/0x4c0 [kvm] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x791/0x17a0 [kvm] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x26d/0x650 [kvm] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x82/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae </TASK>

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.27%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

20%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.01 pp

From 0.27% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu111 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 4.15.0-197.208 | < 5.4.0-132.148 | < 5.15.0-53.59
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 4.15.0-1143.155 | < 5.4.0-1089.97 | < 5.15.0-1023.27
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 219b65dcf6c0bad83d51bfa12e25891c02de2414, < 2c49adeb020995236e63722ef6d0bee14372f471 | ≥ 219b65dcf6c0bad83d51bfa12e25891c02de2414, < 6fcbab82ccbcde915644085f73d3487938bda42d | ≥ 219b65dcf6c0bad83d51bfa12e25891c02de2414, < c3396c1c8b87510f2ac2a674948156577559d42d | ≥ 219b65dcf6c0bad83d51bfa12e25891c02de2414, < 68e1313bb8809e8addcd9431f2bfea0e8ddbca80 | ≥ 219b65dcf6c0bad83d51bfa12e25891c02de2414, < 8bb683490278005b4caf61e22b0828a04d282e86 | ≥ 219b65dcf6c0bad83d51bfa12e25891c02de2414, < 6afe88fbb40eac3291a8728688d61fdc745d8008 | ≥ 219b65dcf6c0bad83d51bfa12e25891c02de2414, < 3d4e2d884da6312df7c9b85fbf671de49204ead6 | ≥ 219b65dcf6c0bad83d51bfa12e25891c02de2414, < 2eee1dba70f57148fc7f8252613bfae6bd4b04e3 | ≥ 219b65dcf6c0bad83d51bfa12e25891c02de2414, < f17c31c48e5cde9895a491d91c424eeeada3e134 | 2.6.32
  • linux_kernel≥ 2.6.32, < 4.9.326 | ≥ 4.10, < 4.14.291 | ≥ 4.15, < 4.19.256 | ≥ 4.20, < 5.4.211 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.137 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.61 | ≥ 5.16, < 5.18.18 | ≥ 5.19, < 5.19.2
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.0.2-1

3 vendors · 114 products

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