Headline
CVE-2022-27652: Build software better, together
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.
Impact
A bug was found in CRI-O where containers were incorrectly started with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities, creating an atypical Linux environment and enabling programs with inheritable file capabilities to elevate those capabilities to the permitted set during execve(2)
. Normally, when executable programs have specified permitted file capabilities, otherwise unprivileged users and processes can execute those programs and gain the specified file capabilities up to the bounding set. Due to this bug, containers which included executable programs with inheritable file capabilities allowed otherwise unprivileged users and processes to additionally gain these inheritable file capabilities up to the container’s bounding set. Containers which use Linux users and groups to perform privilege separation inside the container are most directly impacted.
This bug did not affect the container security sandbox as the inheritable set never contained more capabilities than were included in the container’s bounding set.
Patches
This bug will been fixed in the following versions of CRI-O:
- v1.24.0
Users should update to the version corresponding to their minor release as soon as possible. Running containers should be stopped, deleted, and recreated for the inheritable capabilities to be reset.
This fix changes CRI-O behavior such that containers are started with a more typical Linux environment. Refer to capabilities(7)
for a description of how capabilities work. Note that permitted file capabilities continue to allow for privileges to be raised up to the container’s bounding set and that processes may add capabilities to their own inheritable set up to the container’s bounding set per the rules described in the manual page. In all cases the container’s bounding set provides an upper bound on the capabilities that can be assumed and provides for the container security sandbox.
Workarounds
The entrypoint of a container can be modified to use a utility like capsh(1)
to drop inheritable capabilities prior to the primary process starting.
Credits
CRI-O would like to thank Andrew G. Morgan for responsibly disclosing this issue, as well as the Moby (Docker Engine) project for working with the other container engines in coordinating a fix.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
- Open an issue
- Email us at [email protected] if you think you’ve found a security bug
https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
4.8/Medium
Metric
Value
Comments
Attack Vector (AV)
Local
An attacker requires local control to launch a container with files that have inheritable capabilities.
Attack Complexity (AC)
Low
Modifying a file to have inheritable capabilities is not difficult.
Privileges Required (PR)
Low
An attacker requires enough privilege to cause a container to be launched with a compromised image. Moby’s API is typically bound to a local Unix domain socket and requires calls to be made from a process that is either UID 0 or present in the configured group.
User Interaction (UI)
Required
An attacker must cause the compromised image to be run.
Scope (S)
Unchanged
The container boundary set by Moby, including the bounding capability set, is not modified. A successful attack gains access to privileges and resources within the boundary, not outside of it.
Confidentiality ©
Low
An attacker may gain access to some confidential information through elevation of CAP_CHOWN, CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE, CAP_FOWNER, CAP_SETFCAP, or CAP_SETPCAP, but the exposed information is limited to that which is already inside the container.
Integrity (I)
Low
An attacker may be able to tamper with data inside the container through elevation of CAP_CHOWN, CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE, CAP_FOWNER, CAP_SETFCAP, or CAP_SETPCAP, or spoof packets with CAP_NET_RAW, but the tampered data is limited to that which is already inside the container.
Availability (A)
Low
An attacker may be able to affect the availability of an application running inside the container through elevation of CAP_KILL or CAP_NET_RAW, or may be able to affect availability through tampering with file dependencies.
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