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Amazon Linux 2 : containerd (ALASECS-2023-023)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185921

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of containerd installed on the remote host is prior to 1.4.13-2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2ECS-2023-023 advisory.

 A flaw was found in Moby (Docker Engine), where containers were started incorrectly with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities. This flaw allows an attacker with access to programs with inheritable file capabilities to elevate those capabilities to the permitted set when execve(2) runs.
 Containers using Linux users and groups to perform privilege separation inside the container are most directly impacted. (CVE-2022-24769)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update containerd' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALASECS-2023-023.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-24769.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185921

File Name: al2_ALASECS-2023-023.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/16/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24769

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:containerd-stress, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:containerd, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:containerd-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/24/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24769