CVE-2022-4318 (GCVE-0-2022-4318)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-25 19:23 – Updated: 2024-08-03 01:34
VLAI
Title
Cri-o: /etc/passwd tampering privesc
Summary
A vulnerability was found in cri-o. This issue allows the addition of arbitrary lines into /etc/passwd by use of a specially crafted environment variable.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-10 20:59 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-538 - Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1046 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1033 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1503 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4318 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152703 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 Unaffected: 0:1.24.4-10.rhaos4.11.git1ed5ac5.el8 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.11::el8
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Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 Unaffected: 0:1.25.2-9.rhaos4.12.git0a083f9.el9 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.12::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.12::el9
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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Date Public
2022-12-12 00:00
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Burt Holzman (Fermilab) for reporting this issue.
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