Buildah
CVE-2022-27651
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V13 - Configuration Default permission hardening
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 6.8 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, high complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could access resources due to overly permissive default settings by sending crafted requests to the affected application. |
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A flaw was found in buildah where containers were incorrectly started with non-empty default permissions. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. This Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability could allow attackers to access resources due to overly permissive default settings.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Set restrictive default permissions, follow principle of least privilege, review defaults during deployment.
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Incorrect Default Permissions (CWE-276), which allows attackers to access resources due to overly permissive default settings. 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, enabling an attacker with access to programs with inheritable file capabilities to elevate those capabilities to the permitted set when execve(2) runs. This has the potential to impact confidentiality and integrity. Affected products include: Buildah Project Buildah, Fedoraproject Fedora, Redhat Enterprise Linux.
Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
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, enabling an attacker with access to programs with inheritable file capabilities to elevate those capabilities to the permitted set when execve(2) runs. This has the potential to impact confidentiality and integrity.
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Attack Technique
Privilege escalation occurs when an attacker leverages flaws in access control mechanisms to gain permissions beyond what they were originally granted.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
A path traversal flaw was found in Buildah in versions before 1.14.5. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability
An incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Buildah container engine might lead to the sensitive informatio
The containers/image library used by the container tools Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo in Red Hat Enterprise Linux version
Symlink-based path traversal in the buildah/copier Go package allows a crafted tar archive to create files outside the i
Alpine Linux: buildah fixed in 1.37.5-r0
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