Security advisory
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.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2022-27652
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 01:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2022-27652
Complete source record
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