CVE-2022-4122 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A vulnerability was found in buildah. Incorrect following of symlinks while reading .containerignore and .dockerignore results in information disclosure.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Fedoraproject	Fedora
Podman Project	Podman
Redhat	Enterprise Linux Rhel Eus

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:4.3.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:::::::*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support
container-tools:rhel8-8080020240422101606.0f77c1b7	cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8	RHSA-2024:2077	2024-04-29T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
podman-2:5.2.2-1.el9	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9	RHSA-2024:9102	2024-11-12T00:00:00Z

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2144983
https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/16315
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4122
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4122

History

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 02:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Redhat enterprise Linux
CPEs		cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products		Redhat enterprise Linux

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2022-12-08T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-22T20:30:06.788Z

Reserved: 2022-11-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-4122

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:27:54.545Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-08T16:15:14.870

Modified: 2025-04-22T21:15:44.473

Link: CVE-2022-4122

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-11-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-4122 - Bugzilla

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