Improper Privilege Management Affecting github.com/containers/podman/v4/libpod package, versions <4.0.3
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- published23 Aug 2024
- disclosed21 Aug 2024
- creditAndrew G. Morgan
Introduced: 21 Aug 2024
CVE-2022-27649 Â (opens in a new tab)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.