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CVE-2022-27652

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-276

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 products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 35
• cri-o: all versions
• Docker Engine: before 20.10.14 — fixed in 20.10.14
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 3.11, 4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Docker Engine 20.10.14. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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