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CVE-2022-49168: btrfs: do not clean up repair bio if submit fails

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 31/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.32% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Linux Linux 7170875083254b51fcc5d67f96640977083f481e, 8cbc3001a3264d998d6b6db3e23f935c158abd4d, d1cb11fb45ebbb1e7dfe5e9038b32ea72c184b14; cbl2 kernel 5.15.182.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0 CBL-Mariner Releases; cbl2 kernel 5.15.182.1-1 on CBL-Mariner 2.0 5.15.184.1-1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 7170875083254b51fcc5d67f96640977083f481e, 8cbc3001a3264d998d6b6db3e23f935c158abd4d, d1cb11fb45ebbb1e7dfe5e9038b32ea72c184b14; cbl2 kernel 5.15.182.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0 CBL-Mariner Releases; cbl2 kernel 5.15.182.1-1 on CBL-Mariner 2.0 5.15.184.1-1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: do not clean up repair bio if submit fails The submit helper will always run bio_endio() on the bio if it fails to submit, so cleaning up the bio just leads to a variety of use-after-free and NULL pointer dereference bugs because we race with the endio function that is cleaning up the bio. Instead just return BLK_STS_OK as the repair function has to continue to process the rest of the pages, and the endio for the repair bio will do the appropriate cleanup for the page that it was given.

HighCVSS 7.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Memory safety

Published: Feb 26, 2025
Updated: Aug 5, 2026
EPSS: 0.3% · 25th percentile
CWE: CWE-416

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · Linux: 7.8; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
linux	linux kernel	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

linux linux kernelbefore 5.10.248
linux linux kernel5.11 and later · before 5.15.184
linux linux kernel5.16 and later · before 5.16.19
linux linux kernel5.17 and later · before 5.17.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Linux Linux
- 3.18affected
- 6c387ab20db15f2bd448f7c508e2638101b16ea1 and later · before e7e1d15d2bd8c373cf621614ddd17971a2132713affected · git
- 6c387ab20db15f2bd448f7c508e2638101b16ea1 and later · before 7170875083254b51fcc5d67f96640977083f481eaffected · git
- 6c387ab20db15f2bd448f7c508e2638101b16ea1 and later · before e76c78c48902dae6fa612749f59162bca0a79e0baffected · git
- 6c387ab20db15f2bd448f7c508e2638101b16ea1 and later · before d1cb11fb45ebbb1e7dfe5e9038b32ea72c184b14affected · git
- 6c387ab20db15f2bd448f7c508e2638101b16ea1 and later · before 8cbc3001a3264d998d6b6db3e23f935c158abd4daffected · git
- before 3.18not affected · semver
- 5.10.248 and later · up to and including 5.10.*not affected · semver
- 5.15.184 and later · up to and including 5.15.*not affected · semver
- 5.16.19 and later · up to and including 5.16.*not affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
Debian:11	linux	before 5.10.249-1	5.10.249-1
Debian:12	linux	before 5.17.3-1	5.17.3-1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12 SP5	kernel-default	before 4.12.14-122.261.1	4.12.14-122.261.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12 SP5	kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP5_Update_69	before 1-8.3.1	1-8.3.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS	kernel-source	before 4.12.14-122.261.1	4.12.14-122.261.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS	kernel-syms	before 4.12.14-122.261.1	4.12.14-122.261.1

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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2022-49166Feb 26, 2025 · ntfs: add sanity check on allocation size
22Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2022-49167Feb 26, 2025 · btrfs: do not double complete bio on errors during compressed reads
22Monitor
Later →CVE-2022-49169Feb 26, 2025 · f2fs: use spin_lock to avoid hang
22Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Linux Linux	7170875083254b51fcc5d67f96640977083f481e	Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux	8cbc3001a3264d998d6b6db3e23f935c158abd4d	Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux	d1cb11fb45ebbb1e7dfe5e9038b32ea72c184b14	Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux	e76c78c48902dae6fa612749f59162bca0a79e0b	Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux	e7e1d15d2bd8c373cf621614ddd17971a2132713	Vendor (CNA)
cbl2 kernel 5.15.182.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0	CBL-Mariner Releases	Microsoft (MSRC)
cbl2 kernel 5.15.182.1-1 on CBL-Mariner 2.0	5.15.184.1-1 · CBL-Mariner Releases	Microsoft (MSRC)
debian:linux	5.17.3-1 · Debian:12	Package registry (OSV)
suse:kernel-default	4.12.14-122.261.1 · SUSE:Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12 SP5	Package registry (OSV)
suse:kernel-source	4.12.14-122.261.1 · SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS	Package registry (OSV)
suse:kernel-syms	4.12.14-122.261.1 · SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS	Package registry (OSV)
suse:kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP5_Update_69	1-8.3.1 · SUSE:Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12 SP5	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-416 · Use After Free

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-secondary

Root cause

After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-416 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1free(dev->buf);
2/* ... another thread is still running ... */
3process(dev->buf);

Fixed

1lock(&dev->lock);
2free(dev->buf);
3dev->buf = NULL;
4unlock(&dev->lock);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/7170875083254b51fcc5d67f96640977083f481e

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