CVE-2022-29162

Public on 2022-05-17
Modified on 2024-05-02
Description
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. A bug was found in runc prior to version 1.1.2 where `runc exec --cap` created processes with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities, creating an atypical Linux environment and enabling programs with inheritable file capabilities to elevate those capabilities to the permitted set during execve(2). This bug did not affect the container security sandbox as the inheritable set never contained more capabilities than were included in the container's bounding set. This bug has been fixed in runc 1.1.2. This fix changes `runc exec --cap` behavior such that the additional capabilities granted to the process being executed (as specified via `--cap` arguments) do not include inheritable capabilities. In addition, `runc spec` is changed to not set any inheritable capabilities in the created example OCI spec (`config.json`) file.
Severity
Low severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.6
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 runc No Fix Planned
Amazon Linux 2 - Docker Extra runc Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 runc 2023-06-21 ALAS2023-2023-231 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2023 runc 2024-02-15 ALAS2023-2024-531 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H