Bug 2144989 (CVE-2022-4123)

Summary:	CVE-2022-4123 podman: Path disclosure
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sage McTaggart <amctagga>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Nobody <nobody>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	amurdaca, bbaude, debarshir, dwalsh, go-sig, jburrell, jligon, jnovy, lsm5, mboddu, mheon, nalin, pehunt, pthomas, rh.container.bot, tsweeney, umohnani, vkumar
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in Buildah. The local path and the lowest subdirectory may be disclosed due to incorrect absolute path traversal, resulting in an impact to confidentiality.	Story Points:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	2145054, 2145055, 2145056, 2145057, 2145058, 2145059, 2145060, 2148228, 2148231, 2148234, 2148235, 2148236, 2148237, 2148238
Bug Blocks:	2138202

Description Sage McTaggart 2022-11-22 20:22:38 UTC

This flaw was found in Buildah via podman,.
> Type: information disclosure of a local absolute path
>
> Severity: very low. (A local path is not that sensitive information).
> Feel free to just disregard this report if you think this issue has
> too low importance.
>
> Summary: Podman may disclose the absolute path of an empty context dir
> when running "podman --remote build -t test1 -f /tmp/Dockerfile
> emptydir". The path could be logged in the container image. (The
> lowest subdirectory of the absolute path might not be disclosed, see
> discussion below)
>
> The issue was introduced in
> https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/13531
> that went into the Podman release v4.1.0-rc1
>

Comment 2 Sandipan Roy 2022-11-23 03:41:45 UTC

Created buildah tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-35 [bug 2145054]
Affects: fedora-36 [bug 2145055]
Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2145056]

Comment 5 Sandipan Roy 2022-11-24 16:53:25 UTC

Created podman tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-35 [bug 2148228]
Affects: fedora-36 [bug 2148231]
Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2148234]