containerd up to 1.4.11/1.5.9/1.6.0 CRI information disclosure

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A vulnerability has been found in containerd up to 1.4.11/1.5.9/1.6.0 and classified as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the component CRI Handler. This manipulation causes information disclosure. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2022-23648. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in containerd up to 1.4.11/1.5.9/1.6.0 (Virtualization Software). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component CRI Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality.

The weakness was published 03/03/2022 as GHSA-crp2-qrr5-8pq7. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-23648 since 01/19/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 266278 (NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.06 : neod Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2025-0234)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.4.12, 1.5.10 or 1.6.1 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch 10f428dac7cec44c864e1b830a4623af27a9fc70 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (266278) and EUVD (EUVD-2022-1411). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Virtualization Software

Name

• containerd

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.4.0
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.3
• 1.4.4
• 1.4.5
• 1.4.6
• 1.4.7
• 1.4.8
• 1.4.9
• 1.4.10
• 1.4.11
• 1.5
• 1.5.0
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4
• 1.5.5
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.8
• 1.5.9
• 1.6.0

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/containerd/containerd/

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