CVE-2022-27652

moderate-risk
Published 2022-04-18

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.02% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.3/10 Medium
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (5)

Cri-O

Affected Vendors

Redhat Fedoraproject Kubernetes Mobyproject

References (4)

Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066839
Mitigation https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/security/advisories/GHSA-4hj2-r2pm-3hc6
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066839
Mitigation https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/security/advisories/GHSA-4hj2-r2pm-3hc6
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moderate-risk
Severity 18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 12/34 · Low