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High severity7.8CISA KEVNVD Advisory· Published Mar 3, 2022· Updated Jun 3, 2026

CVE-2022-0492

CVE-2022-0492

Description

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s cgroup_release_agent_write in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups v1 release_agent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly.

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