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CVE-2022-27649
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2022-04-04 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-276
Description
A flaw was found in Podman, where containers were started incorrectly with non-empty default permissions. A vulnerability was found in Moby (Docker Engine), where containers were 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 products
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35, 36
- podman: before 4.0.3 — fixed in 4.0.3
- RedHat Developer Tools: 1.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0, 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 8.4, 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems: 8.0, 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems Eus: 8.4, 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian: 8.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian Eus: 8.4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 8.4, 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server For Power Little Endian Update Services For Sap Solutions: 8.4, 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 8.4, 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Update Services For Sap Solutions: 8.4, 8.6
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 4.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: podman 4.0.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066568
- https://github.com/containers/podman/commit/aafa80918a245edcbdaceb1191d749570f1872d0
- https://github.com/containers/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-qvf8-p83w-v58j
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4KDETHL5XCT6RZN2BBNOCEXRZ2W3SFU3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DLUJZV3HBP56ADXU6QH2V7RNYUPMVBXQ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J5WPM42UR6XIBQNQPNQHM32X7S4LJTRX/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066568
- https://github.com/containers/podman/commit/aafa80918a245edcbdaceb1191d749570f1872d0
- https://github.com/containers/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-qvf8-p83w-v58j
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4KDETHL5XCT6RZN2BBNOCEXRZ2W3SFU3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DLUJZV3HBP56ADXU6QH2V7RNYUPMVBXQ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J5WPM42UR6XIBQNQPNQHM32X7S4LJTRX/
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