CVE-2022-1215

Publication date 27 April 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

A format string vulnerability was found in libinput

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libinput	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.20.0-1ubuntu0.1
	21.10 impish	Fixed 1.18.1-1ubuntu0.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.15.5-1ubuntu0.3
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.10.4-1ubuntu0.18.04.3
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected

Notes

alexmurray

According to the upstream notification, this vulnerability only affects libinput since 1.10 and so may not affect libinput in xenial.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5382-1
libinput vulnerability
20 April 2022

USN-5382-2
libinput vulnerability
2 May 2022

Other references