High severity · published Jun 9, 2022
CVE-2022-31214
A Privilege Context Switching issue was discovered in join.c in Firejail 0.9.68
7.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A Privilege Context Switching issue was discovered in join.c in Firejail 0.9.68. By crafting a bogus Firejail container that is accepted by the Firejail setuid-root program as a join target, a local attacker can enter an environment in which the Linux user namespace is still the initial user namespace, the NO_NEW_PRIVS prctl is not activated, and the entered mount namespace is under the attacker's control. In this way, the filesystem layout can be adjusted to gain root privileges through execution of available setuid-root binaries such as su or sudo.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 33% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
35; 36; 37 · source: NVD
FI
Firejail · Firejail Project
0.9.68 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31214
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-31214
Release Notes
https://firejail.wordpress.com/download-2/release-notes/
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00023.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6RZOTZ36RUSL6DOVHITY25ZYKWTG5HN3/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KUZZ5M6LIBYRKTKGROXC47TDC3FRTGJF/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SIBEBE3KFINMGJATBQQS7D2VQQ62ZVMF/
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-19
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