CVE-2022-29162

Incorrect Default Permissions in runc

State
Published
Severity
5.9 Medium
Published
May 17, 2022
Updated
Apr 23, 2025
Reserved
Apr 13, 2022

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Affected Products

ProductVersions
runcopencontainers
  • < 1.1.2Affected

References

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