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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2022-27649

A flaw was found in Podman, where containers were started incorrectly with non-empty default permissions. A vulnerability was found in Moby (Docker Engine), where containers were 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.

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8 Nov 2026, 03:34 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2022-27649

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 Apr 2022, 19:45 UTC

A flaw was found in Podman, where containers were started incorrectly with non-empty default permissions. A vulnerability was found in Moby (Docker Engine), where containers were 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.

osv:CVE-2022-27649
Complete source record
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        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4KDETHL5XCT6RZN2BBNOCEXRZ2W3SFU3/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DLUJZV3HBP56ADXU6QH2V7RNYUPMVBXQ/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J5WPM42UR6XIBQNQPNQHM32X7S4LJTRX/",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 522256,
  "published_at": "2022-04-04T19:45:43+00:00"
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