CVE-2022-4318

HIGH 7.8

Cri-o: /etc/passwd tampering privesc

CVSS Score

7.8

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

A vulnerability was found in cri-o. This issue allows the addition of arbitrary lines into /etc/passwd by use of a specially crafted environment variable.

CWE	CWE-538
Vendor	red hat
Product	red hat openshift container platform 4.11
Published	Sep 25, 2023
Last Updated	Aug 3, 2024

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Affected Versions

Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11

All versions affected

Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12

All versions affected

Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

All versions affected

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1033 access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1503 access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4318 bugzilla.redhat.com: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152703

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Burt Holzman (Fermilab) for reporting this issue.