# CVE-2022-49357: efi: Do not import certificates from UEFI Secure Boot for T2 Macs

> A page fault in Apple T2 Mac firmware during UEFI certificate import causes a kernel crash, disabling EFI runtime services and leading to denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 26 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49357, GHSA-78mc-fjcf-f6xm, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49357

## What is CVE-2022-49357?

CVE-2022-49357 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

efi: Do not import certificates from UEFI Secure Boot for T2 Macs

On Apple T2 Macs, when Linux attempts to read the db and dbx efi variables
at early boot to load UEFI Secure Boot certificates, a page fault occurs
in Apple firmware code and EFI runtime services are disabled with the
following logs:

[Firmware Bug]: Page fault caused by firmware at PA: 0xffffb1edc0068000
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 104 at arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c:735 efi_crash_gracefully_on_page_fault+0x50/0xf0
(Removed some logs from here)
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 page_fault_oops+0x4f/0x2c0
 ? search_bpf_extables+0x6b/0x80
 ? search_module_extables+0x50/0x80
 ? search_exception_tables+0x5b/0x60
 kernelmode_fixup_or_oops+0x9e/0x110
 __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x155/0x190
 bad_area_nosemaphore+0x16/0x20
 do_kern_addr_fault+0x8c/0xa0
 exc_page_fault+0xd8/0x180
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30
(Removed some logs from here)
 ? __efi_call+0x28/0x30
 ? switch_mm+0x20/0x30
 ? efi_call_rts+0x19a/0x8e0
 ? process_one_work+0x222/0x3f0
 ? worker_thread+0x4a/0x3d0
 ? kthread+0x17a/0x1a0
 ? process_one_work+0x3f0/0x3f0
 ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40
 ? ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
 </TASK>
---[ end trace 1f82023595a5927f ]---
efi: Froze efi_rts_wq and disabled EFI Runtime Services
integrity: Couldn't get size: 0x8000000000000015
integrity: MODSIGN: Couldn't get UEFI db list
efi: EFI Runtime Services are disabled!
integrity: Couldn't get size: 0x8000000000000015
integrity: Couldn't get UEFI dbx list
integrity: Couldn't get size: 0x8000000000000015
integrity: Couldn't get mokx list
integrity: Couldn't get size: 0x80000000

So we avoid reading these UEFI variables and thus prevent the crash.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49357?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-49357?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-49357 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49357 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

- [CVE-2026-53266](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53266/): Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-49357 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-49357 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49357 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49357/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49357/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49357
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49357
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-49357

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49357/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.