CVE-2022-0492: HIGH (CVSS 7.8), Actively Exploited (CISA KEV)

HIGH (CVSS 7.8), Actively Exploited (CISA KEV), EPSS 5.5%. 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.