CVE-2022-24769

Public on 2022-03-24
Modified on 2024-01-12
Description

Moby is an open-source project created by Docker to enable and accelerate software containerization. A bug was found in Moby (Docker Engine) prior to version 20.10.14 where containers were incorrectly started with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities, creating an atypical Linux environment and enabling programs with inheritable file capabilities to elevate those capabilities to the permitted set during `execve(2)`. Normally, when executable programs have specified permitted file capabilities, otherwise unprivileged users and processes can execute those programs and gain the specified file capabilities up to the bounding set. Due to this bug, containers which included executable programs with inheritable file capabilities allowed otherwise unprivileged users and processes to additionally gain these inheritable file capabilities up to the container's bounding set. Containers which use Linux users and groups to perform privilege separation inside the container are most directly impacted. This bug did not affect the container security sandbox as the inheritable set never contained more capabilities than were included in the container's bounding set. This bug has been fixed in Moby (Docker Engine) 20.10.14. Running containers should be stopped, deleted, and recreated for the inheritable capabilities to be reset. This fix changes Moby (Docker Engine) behavior such that containers are started with a more typical Linux environment. As a workaround, the entry point of a container can be modified to use a utility like `capsh(1)` to drop inheritable capabilities prior to the primary process starting.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 containerd 2022-04-25 15:57 ALAS-2022-1582
Amazon Linux 2 - Docker Extra containerd 2022-04-25 16:21 ALAS2DOCKER-2022-018
Amazon Linux 2 - Ecs Extra containerd 2023-11-09 20:27 ALAS2ECS-2023-023
Amazon Linux 2 - Ecs Extra containerd 2022-06-30 00:08 ALAS2ECS-2022-001
Amazon Linux 2 - Aws-nitro-enclaves-cli Extra containerd 2022-04-25 16:23 ALAS2NITRO-ENCLAVES-2022-019
Amazon Linux 2023 containerd 2023-02-17 20:46 ALAS2023-2023-079
Amazon Linux 1 docker 2022-04-25 15:57 ALAS-2022-1582
Amazon Linux 2 - Docker Extra docker 2022-04-25 16:21 ALAS2DOCKER-2022-018
Amazon Linux 2 - Ecs Extra docker 2022-06-30 00:08 ALAS2ECS-2022-001
Amazon Linux 2 - Aws-nitro-enclaves-cli Extra docker 2022-04-25 16:23 ALAS2NITRO-ENCLAVES-2022-019
Amazon Linux 2 - Ecs Extra ecs-init 2022-06-30 00:08 ALAS2ECS-2022-001
Amazon Linux 2 - Ecs Extra runc 2022-06-30 00:08 ALAS2ECS-2022-001

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L