Bug 2121453 (CVE-2022-2990) - CVE-2022-2990 buildah: possible information disclosure and modification
Summary: CVE-2022-2990 buildah: possible information disclosure and modification
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2022-2990
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2121529 2121530 2121531 2121532 2121533 2125646 2126233 2136297
Blocks: 2121454 2121455
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Reported: 2022-08-25 13:58 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2023-05-17 22:53 UTC (History)
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An incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Buildah container engine might lead to the sensitive information disclosure or possible data modification if an attacker has direct access to the affected container where supplementary groups are used to set access permissions and is able to execute a binary code in that container.
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Last Closed: 2022-12-06 18:32:53 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Github containers buildah pull 4200 0 None Merged run: add container `gid` to additional groups 2022-08-29 07:28:10 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:7457 0 None None None 2022-11-08 09:12:12 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:7822 0 None None None 2022-11-08 11:30:47 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:8008 0 None None None 2022-11-15 09:57:44 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:8431 0 None None None 2022-11-15 15:59:19 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:1325 0 None None None 2023-05-17 22:53:39 UTC

Description Marian Rehak 2022-08-25 13:58:09 UTC 
An incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Buildah container engine might lead to the sensitive information disclosure or possible data modification if an attacker has direct access to the affected container where supplementary groups are used to set access permissions and is able to execute a binary code in that container.

Reference:

https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2022/08/22/vulnerability-in-linux-containers-investigation-and-mitigation/
Comment 3 Przemyslaw Roguski 2022-08-25 18:34:38 UTC 
Upstream patch:
https://github.com/containers/buildah/pull/4200
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-08 09:12:10 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:7457 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7457
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-08 11:30:44 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:7822 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7822
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 09:57:42 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2022:8008 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8008
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 15:59:17 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2022:8431 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8431
Comment 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-12-06 18:32:51 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-2990
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-17 22:53:37 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13

Via RHSA-2023:1325 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1325
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