GHSA-cm9x-c3rh-7rc4

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CRI-O vulnerable to /etc/passwd tampering resulting in Privilege Escalation

view advisory published 2022-12-29Licence: CC-BY-4.0

### Impact It is possible to craft an environment variable with newlines to add entries to a container's /etc/passwd. It is possible to circumvent admission validation of username/UID by adding such an entry. Note: because the pod author is in control of the container's /etc/passwd, this is not considered a new risk factor. However, this advisory is being opened for transparency and as a way of tracking fixes. ### Patches 1.26.0 will have the fix. More patches will be posted as they're available. ### Workarounds Additional security controls like SELinux should prevent any damage a container is able to do with root on the host. Using SELinux is recommended because this class of attack is already possible by manually editing the container's /etc/passwd ### References

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IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2022-4318UShigh7.8—
A vulnerability was found in cri-o. This issue allows the addition of arbitrary lines into /etc/passwd by use of a specially crafted environment variable.
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