CVE-2022-2990: buildah_project buildah Placement of User into Incorrect Group
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2022-2990 is a high (CVSS 7.1) Placement of User into Incorrect Group vulnerability in buildah_project buildah. EPSS estimates a 0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28.5% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.
Public exploit (reference, Date unknown)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 10 · Related 10Timeline
- 13-09-2022PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 03-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
An incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Buildah container engine might lead to the sensitive information disclosure or possible data modification if an attacker has direct access to the affected container where supplementary groups are used to set access permissions and is able to execute a binary code in that container.
CVSS metrics
7 scores · 7 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.1HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.1HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- OSV · WolfiEcosystem advisory · calculated7.1HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated7.1HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated7.1HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- OSV · AlpineEcosystem advisory · calculated7.1HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS trend
Probability
0.35%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
29%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.35% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
2 foundExploit Reference (benthamsgaze.org)
Maturity: unknown
Exploit Reference (bugzilla.redhat.com)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root cause- CWE-842Placement of User into Incorrect GroupThe product or the administrator places a user into an incorrect group.
- CWE-863Incorrect AuthorizationThe product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check.
Affected systems
Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Suse7 products
- buildah&distro=SUSE Enterprise Storage 7< 1.25.1-150100.3.20.15
- buildah&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS< 1.25.1-150100.3.20.15
- buildah&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS< 1.25.1-150100.3.20.15
- buildah&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS< 1.25.1-150100.3.20.15
- buildah&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS< 1.25.1-150100.3.20.15
Redhat2 products
- enterprise_linuxEOL7.0 | 8.0 | 9.0
- openshift_container_platform4.0
Alpine1 product
- buildah< 1.28.0-r0
Buildah_project1 product
- buildah< 1.27.1
Chainguard1 product
- buildahAll versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
- golang-github-containers-buildah< 1.28.0+ds1-2
Github.com/containers1 product
- buildah< 1.27.1
Opensuse1 product
- buildah&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 1.27.0-3.1
Ubuntu1 product
- golang-github-containers-buildahAll versions (No fix recorded)
Wolfi1 product
- buildahAll versions (No fix recorded)
10 vendors · 17 products
References
18 links- www.benthamsgaze.org/2022/08/22/vulnerability-in-linux-containers-investigation-and-mitigation/X Refsource MISCREPORTARTICLEExploitThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121453X Refsource MISCREPORTWEBExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
