Published Aug 22, 2023Sources checked Oct 30, 2026
5.9MEDIUMCVSS out of 10
What this means
Review the available evidence
CVE-2022-48566 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.9. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
What to do next
Remediation and response
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Vendor revision: Oct 21, 2026
Release Notes
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS1.3%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2022-48566?
An issue was discovered in compare_digest in Lib/hmac.py in Python through 3.9.1. Constant-time-defeating optimisations were possible in the accumulator variable in hmac.compare_digest.