Information Exposure Affecting lxc package, versions [0,6.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.72% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LXC-3186331
  • published1 Jan 2023
  • disclosed1 Jan 2023
  • creditMaher Azzouzi

Introduced: 1 Jan 2023

CVE-2022-47952  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade lxc to version 6.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure via errors returned by the open() function in lxc-user-nic. A local user can infer from the appearance of "Failed to open" or "does not refer to a network namespace path" whether or not the given file exists.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1