CVE-2022-36109

Moby vulnerability relating to supplementary group permissions

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Sep 9, 2022
Updated
Apr 23, 2025
Reserved
Jul 15, 2022

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Description

Moby is an open-source project created by Docker to enable software containerization. A bug was found in Moby (Docker Engine) where supplementary groups are not set up properly. If an attacker has direct access to a container and manipulates their supplementary group access, they may be able to use supplementary group access to bypass primary group restrictions in some cases, potentially gaining access to sensitive information or gaining the ability to execute code in that container. This bug is fixed in Moby (Docker Engine) 20.10.18. Running containers should be stopped and restarted for the permissions to be fixed. For users unable to upgrade, this problem can be worked around by not using the `"USER $USERNAME"` Dockerfile instruction. Instead by calling `ENTRYPOINT ["su", "-", "user"]` the supplementary groups will be set up properly.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
mobymoby
  • < 20.10.18Affected

References

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