Vulnerability · Published Apr 18, 2022 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2022-27652

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity incorrect default permissions in cri-o. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 16% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 84.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in cri-o, where containers were incorrectly started with non-empty default permissions. A vulnerability was found in Moby (Docker Engine) where containers started incorrectly with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities. This flaw allows an attacker with access to programs with inheritable file capabilities to elevate those capabilities to the permitted set when execve(2) runs.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Go	github.com/cri-o/cri-o	1.24.0	GHSA-4hj2-r2pm-3hc6
Go	github.com/cri-o/cri-o	1.24.0	GO-2022-0426

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	cri-o	Affects all versions.

Weakness: CWE-276

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066839 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/security/advisories/GHSA-4hj2-r2pm-3hc6 x_refsource_MISC