CVE-2022-27652
A flaw was found in cri-o, where containers were incorrectly started with non-empty default permissions. A vulnerability was found in Moby…
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.24%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 84% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 27 days later
· 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.24% · top 84% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
cri-o
- affected Affects all versions.
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/cri-o/cri-oGHSA-4hj2-r2pm-3hc6 (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066839 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/security/advisories/GHSA-4hj2-r2pm-3hc6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2022-1621 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-4hj2-r2pm-3hc6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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