CVE-2022-4122 Buildah (as part of Podman) vulnerable to Link Following

What is CVE-2022-4122?

CVE-2022-4122 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 8 Dec 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-4122?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/containers/podman/v4, github.com/containers/podman and github.com/containers/podman/v2. It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Podman Project Podman.

How do I fix CVE-2022-4122?

Upgrade github.com/containers/podman/v4 to 4.5.0 or later.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2022-4122 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-4122 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-44526, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4122, GHSA-4crw-w8pw-2hmf, GO-2022-1151, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-4122.