HIGH 8.8 Microsoft

CVE-2022-1227

A privilege escalation flaw was found in Podman. This flaw allows an attacker to publish a malicious image to a public registry. Once this image is downloaded by a potential victim the vulnerability is triggered after a user runs the 'podman top' command. This action gives the attacker access to the host filesystem leading to information disclosure or denial of service.

Microsoft Security Update 2022-Apr: A privilege escalation flaw was found in Podman. This flaw allows an attacker to publish a malicious image to a public registry. Once this image is downloaded by a potential victim the vulnerability is triggered after a user runs the 'podman top' command. This action gives the attacker access to the host filesystem leading to information disclosure or denial of service.

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Published: 2022-04-12 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-08-21
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8 was published on 2022-04-12 via Microsoft. Affected: cbl2 podman 4.1.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0.
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