In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: When HCI work queue is drained, only queue chained work The HCI command, event, and data packet processing workqueue is drained to avoid deadlock in commit 76727c02c1e1 ("Bluetooth: Call drain_workqueue() before resetting state"). There is another delayed work, which will queue command to this drained workqueue. Which results in the following error report: Bluetooth: hci2: command 0x040f tx timeout WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 18374 at kernel/workqueue.c:1438 __queue_work+0xdad/0x1140 Workqueue: events hci_cmd_timeout RIP: 0010:__queue_work+0xdad/0x1140 RSP: 0000:ffffc90002cffc60 EFLAGS: 00010093 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8880b9d3ec00 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff888024ba0000 RSI: ffffffff814e048d RDI: ffff8880b9d3ec08 RBP: 0000000000000008 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000b9d39700 R10: ffffffff814f73c6 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88807cce4c60 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8880796d8800 R15: ffff8880796d8800 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000000c0174b4000 CR3: 000000007cae9000 CR4: 00000000003506e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ? queue_work_on+0xcb/0x110 ? lockdep_hardirqs_off+0x90/0xd0 queue_work_on+0xee/0x110 process_one_work+0x996/0x1610 ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x2a0/0x2a0 ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90 ? _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x41/0x50 worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 ? process_one_work+0x1610/0x1610 kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x40/0x40 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 </TASK> To fix this, we can add a new HCI_DRAIN_WQ flag, and don't queue the timeout workqueue while command workqueue is draining.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2022-50166 is rated Low Risk (22.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
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| 1 | 2025-06-18 | — | 0.02% | — |
Full EPSS history (1 record total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
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| 5.5 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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1.8 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2022-50166 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 4, open 1. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50166 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50166 |
suse
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medium | — | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50166/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2022-50166 medium priority: Ubuntu including 158 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1551 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1145, ignored 150, released 92, not-affected 90, needed 74. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-50166 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 3.19, < 5.18.18 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 5.19, < 5.19.2 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |