CVE-2022-27652: fedoraproject fedora Incorrect Default Permissions
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2022-27652 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15.8% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 5.3, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1Timeline
- 18-04-2022PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 03-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
A flaw was found in cri-o, where containers were incorrectly started with non-empty default permissions. A vulnerability was found in Moby (Docker Engine) where containers started incorrectly with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities. This flaw allows an attacker with access to programs with inheritable file capabilities to elevate those capabilities to the permitted set when execve(2) runs.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions- OSV · Red hatEcosystem advisory · calculated4.8MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LDiffers
- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated4.8MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LDiffers
EPSS trend
Probability
0.24%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
16%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.24% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Redhat4 products
- openshift_container_platform3.11 | 4.0
- cri-o< 0:1.22.5-7.rhaos4.9.git3dbcd3c.el7 | < 0:1.22.5-7.rhaos4.9.git3dbcd3c.el8
- cri-o-debuginfo< 0:1.22.5-7.rhaos4.9.git3dbcd3c.el7 | < 0:1.22.5-7.rhaos4.9.git3dbcd3c.el8
- cri-o-debugsource< 0:1.22.5-7.rhaos4.9.git3dbcd3c.el8
Fedoraproject1 product
- fedoraEOL35
Github.com/cri-o1 product
- cri-o< 1.24.0
Kubernetes1 product
- cri-ona
Mobyproject1 product
- moby< 20.10.14
5 vendors · 8 products
References
9 links- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066839X Refsource MISCREPORTWEBIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- github.com/cri-o/cri-o/security/advisories/GHSA-4hj2-r2pm-3hc6X Refsource MISCARTICLEWEBAdvisoryMitigationThird Party Advisory
- github.com/cri-o/cri-oPACKAGE