Amazon Linux AMI update for containerd, docker

1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

EUVDB-ID: #VU61600

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.4 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24769

CWE-ID: CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to containers are incorrectly started with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.

Mitigation

Update the affected packages:

src:
    containerd-1.4.13-2.1.amzn1.src
    docker-20.10.13-2.1.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    containerd-1.4.13-2.1.amzn1.x86_64
    containerd-stress-1.4.13-2.1.amzn1.x86_64
    containerd-debuginfo-1.4.13-2.1.amzn1.x86_64
    docker-debuginfo-20.10.13-2.1.amzn1.x86_64
    docker-20.10.13-2.1.amzn1.x86_64

Vulnerable software versions

Amazon Linux AMI: All versions

External links

http://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2022-1582.html

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.