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high 8.8

CVE-2022-1227 json

Podman publishes a malicious image to public registries

published 2022-04-29 4 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-66vw-v2x9-hw75 , GO-2022-0558 , EUVD-2022-1644

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.2%
EPSS 4.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A privilege escalation flaw was found in Podman. This flaw allows an attacker to publish a malicious image to a public registry. Once this image is downloaded by a potential victim, the vulnerability is triggered after a user runs the 'podman top' command. This action gives the attacker access to the host filesystem, leading to information disclosure or denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/containers/podman/v3 3.4
  • go github.com/containers/psgo 1.7.2
  • podman_project podman 4.0.0
  • psgo_project psgo 1.7.2
  • libpod Debian 12 3.4.7+ds1-1
  • golang-github-containers-psgo Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.7.1+ds1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1227

  • crit RHEL 8 3.15-3.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be
  • criu RHEL 8 3.15-3.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be
  • crun RHEL 8 1.4.4-1.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be
  • runc RHEL 8 1:1.0.3-2.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be
  • udica RHEL 8 0.2.6-2.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be
  • conmon RHEL 8 2:2.1.0-1.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be
  • podman RHEL 8 2:4.0.2-6.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be
  • skopeo RHEL 8 2:1.6.1-2.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be

red hat advisories RHSA-2022:1762RHSA-2022:4816RHSA-2022:4651RHSA-2022:5622RHSA-2022:2263RHSA-2022:2190

  • podman SLE Module for Containers 15 SP3, SLE Micro 5.2, SLE Micro 5.1 +3 more 3.4.7-150300.9.9.2
  • podman SLE Module for Containers 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 3.4.7-150400.4.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:2839-2SUSE-SU-2022:2839-1SUSE-SU-2022:2834-1

  • podman openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.2.1-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:12400-1

  • crit AlmaLinux 8 3.15-1.module_el8.6.0+2876+9ed4eae2
  • criu AlmaLinux 8 3.15-1.module_el8.6.0+2876+9ed4eae2
  • crun AlmaLinux 8 0.18-3.module_el8.6.0+2876+9ed4eae2
  • runc AlmaLinux 8 1.0.0-73.rc95.module_el8.6.0+2876+9ed4eae2
  • udica AlmaLinux 8 0.2.4-1.module_el8.6.0+2876+9ed4eae2
  • conmon AlmaLinux 8 2:2.0.26-1.module_el8.6.0+2876+9ed4eae2
  • podman AlmaLinux 8 3.0.1-9.module_el8.6.0+2886+bfcd65b6
  • skopeo AlmaLinux 8 1:1.2.4-1.module_el8.6.0+2876+9ed4eae2

almalinux advisories ALSA-2022:2143ALSA-2022:1762

  • criu Rocky Linux 8 3.15-1.module+el8.7.0+1076+9b1c11c1
  • criu Rocky Linux 8 3.15-1.module+el8.4.0+556+40122d08
  • criu Rocky Linux 8 3.15-1.module+el8.5.0+709+440d5e7e
  • criu Rocky Linux 8 3.15-1.module+el8.6.0+783+10209741
  • crun Rocky Linux 8 0.18-3.module+el8.7.0+1076+9b1c11c1
  • crun Rocky Linux 8 0.18-3.module+el8.6.0+783+10209741
  • runc Rocky Linux 8 1.0.0-73.rc95.module+el8.7.0+1076+9b1c11c1
  • runc Rocky Linux 8 1.0.0-73.rc95.module+el8.5.0+769+55ca48e8

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2022:2143RLSA-2022:1762

  • podman Alpine 3.15 3.4.7-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-1227

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • podman CBL-Mariner 2.0 4.1.1-1

azure linux advisories AZL-9656

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-1227 updated cvss 8.0

psgo: Privilege escalation in 'podman top'

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 podman, podman-tests, podman-docker, podman-remote, podman-gvproxy, podman-plugins, +2 more
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/file-integrity-rhel8-operator
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-builder-rhel8
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras podman 1.6.4-32.el7_9, podman-docker 1.6.4-32.el7_9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:2190
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) crit 3.15-1.module+el8.6.0+14874+64436299, crit 3.15-3.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be, criu 3.15-1.module+el8.6.0+14874+64436299, criu 3.15-3.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be, crun 0.18-3.module+el8.6.0+14874+64436299, crun 1.4.4-1.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be, +54 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:1762
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2) crit 3.12-9.module+el8.2.0+14896+bf621b2a, criu 3.12-9.module+el8.2.0+14896+bf621b2a, udica 0.2.1-2.module+el8.2.0+14896+bf621b2a, conmon 2.0.6-1.module+el8.2.0+14896+bf621b2a, podman 1.6.4-24.module+el8.2.0+14896+bf621b2a, skopeo 0.1.40-9.module+el8.2.0+14896+bf621b2a, +16 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:4651
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4) crit 3.15-1.module+el8.4.0+14872+9efa52a3, crit 3.15-1.module+el8.4.0+14908+81312c48, criu 3.15-1.module+el8.4.0+14872+9efa52a3, criu 3.15-1.module+el8.4.0+14908+81312c48, crun 0.18-2.module+el8.4.0+14872+9efa52a3, crun 0.20.1-1.module+el8.4.0+14908+81312c48, +46 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:4816
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 podman 1.9.3-5.rhaos4.6.el8, podman-tests 1.9.3-5.rhaos4.6.el8, podman-docker 1.9.3-5.rhaos4.6.el8, podman-remote 1.9.3-5.rhaos4.6.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:2263
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  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 conmon, podman, podman-tests, podman-docker, podman-remote, podman-gvproxy, +3 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 conmon, podman, podman-tests, podman-docker, podman-remote, podman-gvproxy, +2 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 cri-o, openshift4/cnf-tests-rhel8, openshift4/ose-machine-config-operator
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/10941 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/containers/podman/v3
<3.4
3.4
go github.com/containers/psgo
<1.7.2
1.7.2

Affected products

  • n/a psgo

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-281 Improper Preservation of Permissions
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

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