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CVE-2022-1227
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2022-04-29 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-281
Description
A privilege escalation flaw was found in Podman. This flaw allows an attacker to publish a malicious image to a public registry. Once this image is downloaded by a potential victim, the vulnerability is triggered after a user runs the 'podman top' command. This action gives the attacker access to the host filesystem, leading to information disclosure or denial of service.
Affected products
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35
- podman: before 4.0.0 — fixed in 4.0.0
- Psgo Project Psgo: before 1.7.2 — fixed in 1.7.2
- RedHat Developer Tools: 1.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0, 8.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems: 7.0, 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian: 7.0, 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server For Power Little Endian Update Services For Sap Solutions: 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Update Services For Sap Solutions: 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 4.0
- Red Hat Quay 3: 3.0.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: podman 4.0.0; Psgo Project Psgo 1.7.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2070368
- https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/10941
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DLUJZV3HBP56ADXU6QH2V7RNYUPMVBXQ/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240628-0001/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2070368
- https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/10941
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DLUJZV3HBP56ADXU6QH2V7RNYUPMVBXQ/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240628-0001/
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