Buildah processes using chroot isolation may leak environment values to intermediate processes
### Impact When running processes using "chroot" isolation, the process being run can examine the environment variables of its immediate parent and grandparent processes (CVE-2021-3602). This isolation type is often used when running `buildah` in unprivileged containers, and it is often used to do so in CI/CD environments. If sensitive information is exposed to the original `buildah` process through its environment, that information will unintentionally be shared with child processes which it starts as part of handling RUN instructions or during `buildah run`. The commands that `buildah` is instructed to run can read that information if they choose to. ### Patches Users should upgrade packages, or images which contain packages, to include version 1.21.3 or later. ### Workarounds As a workaround, invoking `buildah` in a container under `env -i` to have it started with a reinitialized environment should prevent the leakage. ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in [buildah](https://github.com/containers/buildah/issues) * Email us at [the buildah general mailing list](mailto:buildah@lists.buildah.io), or [the podman security mailing list](mailto:security@lists.podman.io) if it's sensitive.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-3602US | medium5.5 | — | ||
An information disclosure flaw was found in Buildah, when building containers using chroot isolation. Running processes in container builds (e.g. Dockerfile RUN commands) can acces… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1969264WEB
- https://github.com/containers/buildahPACKAGE
- https://github.com/containers/buildah/commit/a468ce0ffd347035d53ee0e26c205ef604097fb0WEB
- https://github.com/containers/buildah/security/advisories/GHSA-7638-r9r3-rmjjWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3602ADVISORY
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0345WEB
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3602WEB
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