CVE-2023-0778

Summary

CVECVE-2023-0778
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-03-27 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-04-03 16:59:00 UTC
DescriptionA Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) flaw was found in podman. This issue may allow a malicious user to replace a normal file in a volume with a symlink while exporting the volume, allowing for access to arbitrary files on the host file system.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-367

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Podman Project Podman - All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
2168256 – (CVE-2023-0778) CVE-2023-0778 podman: symlink exchange attack in podman export volume MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160678 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for container-tools:ol8 (ELSA-2023-2758)
  • 160696 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for container-tools:4.0 (ELSA-2023-2802)
  • 183433 Debian Security Update for libpod (CVE-2023-0778)
  • 241486 Red Hat Update for container-tools:4.0 (RHSA-2023:2802)
  • 241505 Red Hat Update for container-tools:rhel8 security (RHSA-2023:2758)
  • 241546 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 Security Update (RHSA-2023:1325)
  • 283728 Fedora Security Update for podman (FEDORA-2023-698b47d488)
  • 283746 Fedora Security Update for podman (FEDORA-2023-998dbd3b79)
  • 503216 Alpine Linux Security Update for podman
  • 506159 Alpine Linux Security Update for podman
  • 753904 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for podman (SUSE-SU-2023:1812-1)
  • 770186 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 Security Update (RHSA-2023:1325)
  • 941090 AlmaLinux Security Update for container-tools:4.0 (ALSA-2023:2802)
  • 941116 AlmaLinux Security Update for container-tools:rhel8 (ALSA-2023:2758)
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