Bug 2144989 (CVE-2022-4123) - CVE-2022-4123 podman: Path disclosure
Summary: CVE-2022-4123 podman: Path disclosure
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-4123
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2145054 2145055 2145056 2145057 2145058 2145059 2145060 2148228 2148231 2148234 2148235 2148236 2148237 2148238
Blocks: 2138202
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Reported: 2022-11-22 20:22 UTC by Sage McTaggart
Modified: 2023-07-07 08:34 UTC (History)
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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.
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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]
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