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CVE-2022-27666

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 5.52% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2022-03-23 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

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CVE
CVE-2022-27666
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
5.52%

Original NVD Description

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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