Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2022-27649
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 8 Nov 2026, 03:34 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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