CVE-2022-23648Insecure handling of image volumes in containerd CRI plugin
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 27.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
containerd is a container runtime available as a daemon for Linux and Windows. A bug was found in containerd prior to versions 1.6.1, 1.5.10, and 1.14.12 where containers launched through containerd’s CRI implementation on Linux with a specially-crafted image configuration could gain access to read-only copies of arbitrary files and directories on the host. This may bypass any policy-based enforcement on container setup (including a Kubernetes Pod Security Policy) and expose potentially sensitive information. Kubernetes and crictl can both be configured to use containerd’s CRI implementation. This bug has been fixed in containerd 1.6.1, 1.5.10, and 1.4.12. Users should update to these versions to resolve the issue.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 43 days later
· 43 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 27.4% · top 1.9% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
- affected < 1.4.13
- affected >= 1.5.0, < 1.5.10
- affected >= 1.6.0, < 1.6.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/containerd/containerdGHSA-crp2-qrr5-8pq7 (opens in a new tab)
References
References11
- https://github.com/containerd/containerd/security/advisories/GHSA-crp2-qrr5-8pq7 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/10f428dac7cec44c864e1b830a4623af27a9fc70 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases/tag/v1.4.13 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases/tag/v1.5.10 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases/tag/v1.6.1 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- DSA-5091 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-dc35dd101f (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-230f2b024b (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166421/containerd-Image-Volume-Insecure-Handling.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-d9c9bf56f6 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- GLSA-202401-31 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-1411 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-crp2-qrr5-8pq7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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