CVE-2022-27651

A flaw was found in buildah, where containers were incorrectly started with non-empty default permissions. A bug was found in Moby (Docker Engine) where containers were incorrectly started 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.

This issue is related to the general vulnerability found in Moby (Docker Engine), which has been assigned CVE-2022-24769.

The impact for OpenShift Container Platform is set to LOW as Buildah was shipped but is not being used. No update is planned at this time.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

The entry point of a container can be modified to use a utility like capsh(1) to drop inheritable capabilities prior to the primary process starting.