CVE-2021-3762

highpriority · track · 41EPSS 0.048 · 92 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

4.81% (92nd) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

8 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A directory traversal vulnerability was found in the ClairCore engine of Clair. An attacker can exploit this by supplying a crafted container image which, when scanned by Clair, allows for arbitrary file write on the filesystem, potentially allowing for remote code execution.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-22US

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a quay/claircore≤ Affects v0.4.6 and higher, v0.5.3 and higher | Fixedin claircore v0.4.8, v0.5.5.enisa_euvdEU
redhat clair0.4.6 → 0.4.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:clair:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat clair0.5.3 → 0.5.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:clair:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat quay= 3.5.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:quay:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Go github.com/quay/claircore< 0.4.8osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/quay/claircore
Go github.com/quay/claircore< 1.1.0osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/quay/claircore
Go github.com/quay/claircore0.5.0 → 0.5.5osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/quay/claircore
Go github.com/quay/claircore1.0.0 → 1.1.0osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/quay/claircore

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-mq47-6wwv-v79wPath traversal in claircore2022-03-04ghsa · osvUS
A directory traversal vulnerability was found in the ClairCore engine of Clair. An attacker can exploit this by supplying a crafted container image which, when scanned by Clair, allows for arbitrary file write on the filesystem, potentially allowing for remote code execution.
GO-2022-0346Path traversal in github.com/quay/claircore2022-07-15vendor · osvUS
A maliciously crafted RPM file can cause the Scanner.Scan function to write files with arbitrary contents to arbitrary locations on the local filestem.

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-03-03modified 2026-06-17

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references (21)

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