CVE-2022-27650

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: April 4, 2022 at 07:45 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:37 AM UTC
4 products affected across 3 vendorsFedoraEnterprise LinuxOpenShift Container Platform

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%

Description

A flaw was found in crun where containers were incorrectly started 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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 1.4.3
Affected range stops below 1.4.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-276

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