CVE-2022-1304: e2fsprogs Project e2fsprogs

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An out-of-bounds read/write vulnerability was found in e2fsprogs 1.46.5. This issue leads to a segmentation fault and possibly arbitrary code execution via a specially crafted filesystem.

Affected products

• e2fsprogs Project e2fsprogs: version 1.46.5 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 35 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2022-04-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.