CVE-2022-50732 | staging: rtl8192u: Fix use after free in ieee80211_rx()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8192u: Fix use after free in ieee80211_rx() We cannot dereference the "skb" pointer after calling ieee80211_monitor_rx(), because it is a use after free.

Published: 2025-12-24 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2022-50732 is rated Low Risk (19.4/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.06%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2022-50732

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)
1 2026-06-03 0.04% 0.06% +0.02%
2 2026-05-22 0.06% 0.04% -0.02%
3 2026-04-25 0.06%

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2022-50732

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2022-50732

OS Trackers for CVE-2022-50732

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2022-50732 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50732
redhat https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50732
suse medium https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50732/
ubuntu medium CVE-2022-50732 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 176, released 145, not-affected 69, needed 4, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-50732

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2022-50732

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2022-50732

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