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CVE-2021-4024
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2021-12-23 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-200
Description
A flaw was found in podman. The `podman machine` function (used to create and manage Podman virtual machine containing a Podman process) spawns a `gvproxy` process on the host system. The `gvproxy` API is accessible on port 7777 on all IP addresses on the host. If that port is open on the host's firewall, an attacker can potentially use the `gvproxy` API to forward ports on the host to ports in the VM, making private services on the VM accessible to the network. This issue could be also used to interrupt the host's services by forwarding all ports to the VM.
Affected products
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35
- podman: from 3.3.0 before 3.4.3 — fixed in 3.4.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: podman 3.4.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2026675%2C
- https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v3.4.3
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QFFVJ6S3ZRMPDYB7KYAWEMDHXFZYQPU3/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2026675%2C
- https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v3.4.3
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QFFVJ6S3ZRMPDYB7KYAWEMDHXFZYQPU3/
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