EIP-ad32d249

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the CloudLinux Lightweight Virtualized Environment (LVE) kernel module due to an overflow of a reference counter. Successful exploitation allows an authenticated local user to escalate their privileges to root, whereas an unsuccessful exploit may cause a kernel panic. 

Vulnerability Identifiers

• Exodus Intelligence: EIP-ad32d249
• MITRE: CVE-2022-0492

Vulnerability Metrics

• CVSSv2 Score: 6.6

Vendor References

• https://changelog.cloudlinux.com/search?value=ad32d249

Discovery Credit

• Exodus Intelligence

Disclosure Timeline

• Disclosed to affected vendor: April 21st, 2022
• Disclosed to public: January 13th, 2023

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