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CVE-2022-2989

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-09-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-842

Description

An incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Podman container engine might lead to the sensitive information disclosure or possible data modification if an attacker has direct access to the affected container where supplementary groups are used to set access permissions and is able to execute a binary code in that container.

Affected products

• podman: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 3.11, 4.0

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121445
• https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2022/08/22/vulnerability-in-linux-containers-investigation-and-mitigation/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121445
• https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2022/08/22/vulnerability-in-linux-containers-investigation-and-mitigation/

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