CVE-2022-48571

highpriority · track · 30EPSS 0.011 · 65 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.09% (65th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

6 products

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

memcached 1.6.7 allows a Denial of Service via multi-packet uploads in UDP.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.9–7.5

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Open Source memcached 1.6.7all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:memcache_project:memcache:1.6.7
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
memcached memcached= 1.6.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:memcached:memcached:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami memcached< 1.6.8osvUSpkg:bitnami/memcached

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-2216memcached: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of ServiceDeutsch2023-08-29csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in memcached ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.
BIT-memcached-2022-485712024-11-08vendor · osvUS
memcached 1.6.7 allows a Denial of Service via multi-packet uploads in UDP.

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

Which sources assert this record, and when.

published 2023-08-22modified 2026-06-17

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External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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