CVE-2022-2995 — Incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the CRI-O container engine mig

Incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the CRI-O container engine might lead to sensitive information disclosure or possible data modification if an attacker has direct access to the affected container where supplementary groups are used to set access permissions and i

01What is this vulnerability?

Incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the CRI-O container engine might lead to sensitive information disclosure or possible data modification if an attacker has direct access to the affected container where supplementary groups are used to set access permissions and is able to execute a binary code in that container.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / cri	o — cri-o 1.25.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-09-19T19:53:23.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-05-29T15:57:51.706Z

09References

• www.benthamsgaze.org — https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2022/08/22/vulnerability-in-linux-containers-invest…
• github.com — https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/pull/6159