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CVE-2022-3466: Cri-o: security regression of 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: 2023-09-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-276

Description

The version of cri-o as released for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.48, 4.10.31, and 4.11.6 via RHBA-2022:6316, RHBA-2022:6257, and RHBA-2022:6658, respectively, included an incorrect version of cri-o missing the fix for CVE-2022-27652, which was previously fixed in OCP 4.9.41 and 4.10.12 via RHBA-2022:5433 and RHSA-2022:1600. This issue could allow an attacker with access to programs with inheritable file capabilities to elevate those capabilities to the permitted set when execve(2) runs. For more details, see https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-27652.

Affected products

• cri-o: all versions
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 3.11, 4.12

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7398
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3466
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2134063
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7398
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3466
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2134063

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