Improper Privilege Management Affecting github.com/containers/podman/v4/libpod package, versions <4.0.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.25% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMCONTAINERSPODMANV4LIBPOD-7814219
  • published 23 Aug 2024
  • disclosed 21 Aug 2024
  • credit Andrew G. Morgan

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/containers/podman/v4/libpod to version 4.0.3 or higher.

Overview

github.com/containers/podman/v4/libpod is a tool for managing containers and images, volumes mounted into those containers, and pods made from groups of containers. Podman is based on libpod, a library for container lifecycle management that is also contained in this repository. The libpod library provides APIs for managing containers, pods, container images, and volumes.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management due to the default configuration settings. An attacker can escalate privileges by exploiting the improperly set inheritable capabilities.

References

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
4.8 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    Low
  • Integrity (VI)
    Low
  • Availability (VA)
    None
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None