CVE-2022-29162

Incorrect Default Permissions in runc

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 5.9
EPSS
EPSS 0.39 % · percentile 33 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Modified

Description

runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. A bug was found in runc prior to version 1.1.2 where `runc exec --cap` created processes 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). 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 runc 1.1.2. This fix changes `runc exec --cap` behavior such that the additional capabilities granted to the process being executed (as specified via `--cap` arguments) do not include inheritable capabilities. In addition, `runc spec` is changed to not set any inheritable capabilities in the created example OCI spec (`config.json`) file.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LGitHub_M
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

Advisories

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
opencontainers · runcaffected < 1.1.2

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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