CVE-2022-47952

Low

Description

lxc-user-nic in lxc through 5.0.1 is installed setuid root, and may allow local users to infer whether any file exists, even within a protected directory tree, because "Failed to open" often indicates that a file does not exist, whereas "does not refer to a network namespace path" often indicates that a file exists. NOTE: this is different from CVE-2018-6556 because the CVE-2018-6556 fix design was based on the premise that "we will report back to the user that the open() failed but the user has no way of knowing why it failed"; however, in many realistic cases, there are no plausible reasons for failing except that the file does not exist.

SeverityLow
CVSS3.3
Exploit probability—
ProductLinuxcontainers Lxc
PublishedJan 1, 2023
First seenJan 1, 2023
Weakness typeCWE-203CWE-203

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linuxcontainers lxcv ≤ 5.0.1—

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