Buildah Group placement of user into incorrect group

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Buildah. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Group Handler. Performing a manipulation results in placement of user into incorrect group. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-2990. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Buildah (unknown version). This affects an unknown code block of the component Group Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a placement of user into incorrect group vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-842. The product or the administrator places a user into an incorrect group. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Buildah container engine might lead to the sensitive information disclosure or possible data modification if an attacker has direct access to the affected container where supplementary groups are used to set access permissions and is able to execute a binary code in that container.

The weakness was published 09/13/2022. It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-2990 since 08/25/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 224704 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-2990), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (224704) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2022-2044). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Affected

  • Amazon Linux 2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Oracle Linux
  • Red Hat OpenShift
  • Gentoo Linux
  • RESF Rocky Linux

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.3

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VulDB Temp Score: 5.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Placement of user into incorrect group
CWE: CWE-842
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 224704
Nessus Name: Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-2990

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

08/25/2022 🔍
09/13/2022 +19 days 🔍
09/13/2022 +0 days 🔍
11/30/2025 +1174 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: bugzilla.redhat.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-2990 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-2990
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-208395
CERT Bund: WID-SEC-2022-2044 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Mehrere Schwachstellen

Entryinfo

Created: 09/13/2022 20:18
Updated: 11/30/2025 10:24
Changes: 09/13/2022 20:18 (36), 10/16/2022 07:04 (11), 03/05/2025 12:40 (16), 11/30/2025 10:24 (7)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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