CVE-2022-4123 Buildah (as part of Podman) vulnerable to Path Traversal

What is CVE-2022-4123?

CVE-2022-4123 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 8 Dec 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A flaw was found in Buildah. The local path and the lowest subdirectory may be disclosed due to incorrect absolute path traversal, resulting in an impact to confidentiality.

Weakness: CWE-22, CWE-23

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-4123?

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

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Podman Project Podman.

How do I fix CVE-2022-4123?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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

Is CVE-2022-4123 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-4123 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-11587, AZL-36977, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4123, GHSA-rprg-4v7q-87v7, GO-2022-1159, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-4123.