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UBUNTU-CVE-2022-36109 (CVE-2022-36109)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2022-09-09 18:15 – Updated: 2026-03-23 10:11 – Source website

Details

Moby is an open-source project created by Docker to enable software containerization. A bug was found in Moby (Docker Engine) where supplementary groups are not set up properly. If an attacker has direct access to a container and manipulates their supplementary group access, they may be able to use supplementary group access to bypass primary group restrictions in some cases, potentially gaining access to sensitive information or gaining the ability to execute code in that container. This bug is fixed in Moby (Docker Engine) 20.10.18. Running containers should be stopped and restarted for the permissions to be fixed. For users unable to upgrade, this problem can be worked around by not using the "USER $USERNAME" Dockerfile instruction. Instead by calling ENTRYPOINT ["su", "-", "user"] the supplementary groups will be set up properly.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

6.3 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-36109	REPORT
	https://github.com/moby/moby/security/advisories/…	REPORT
	https://github.com/moby/moby/commit/de7af816e76a7…	REPORT
	https://github.com/moby/moby/releases/tag/v20.10.18	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-36109	REPORT

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CVE-2022-36109 (GCVE-0-2022-36109)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-09 17:20 – Updated: 2025-04-23 17:12

Title

Moby vulnerability relating to supplementary group permissions

Summary

Moby is an open-source project created by Docker to enable software containerization. A bug was found in Moby (Docker Engine) where supplementary groups are not set up properly. If an attacker has direct access to a container and manipulates their supplementary group access, they may be able to use supplementary group access to bypass primary group restrictions in some cases, potentially gaining access to sensitive information or gaining the ability to execute code in that container. This bug is fixed in Moby (Docker Engine) 20.10.18. Running containers should be stopped and restarted for the permissions to be fixed. For users unable to upgrade, this problem can be worked around by not using the `"USER $USERNAME"` Dockerfile instruction. Instead by calling `ENTRYPOINT ["su", "-", "user"]` the supplementary groups will be set up properly.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-23 14:01 UTC

CWE

CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7613 records in the last 180 days details

References

8 references

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https://github.com/moby/moby/commit/de7af816e76a7…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/moby/moby/releases/tag/v20.10.18	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2022/08/22/vulnerabi…	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
moby	moby	Affected: < 20.10.18

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