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CVE-2022-27666 Public exploit EPSS 5.5%
A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in IPsec ESP transformation code in net/ipv4/esp4.c and net/ipv6/esp6.c
Official description · CVE.org
A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in IPsec ESP transformation code in net/ipv4/esp4.c and net/ipv6/esp6.c. This flaw allows a local attacker with a normal user privilege to overwrite kernel heap objects and may cause a local privilege escalation threat.
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29.7 / 100
- Exploited
- Not confirmed
- Reports
- 1
- Tactics
- 0/15
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Public exploit code (PoC-in-GitHub) was available the same day.
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No techniques linkedNo ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.
What security researchers reported
Named in 1 threat report1 reportCISA
Reports are matched by finding the exact id CVE-2022-27666 in their text; nobody has reviewed the match. One passage is shown per report, at most 320 characters, linked to the original.
Also mentioned in 9 community threat pulses (AlienVault OTX)
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