CVE-2022-47952

LOW

Linuxcontainers Lxc < 5.0.1 - Information Disclosure

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

lxc-user-nic in lxc through 5.0.1 is installed setuid root, and may allow local users to infer whether any file exists, even within a protected directory tree, because "Failed to open" often indicates that a file does not exist, whereas "does not refer to a network namespace path" often indicates that a file exists. NOTE: this is different from CVE-2018-6556 because the CVE-2018-6556 fix design was based on the premise that "we will report back to the user that the open() failed but the user has no way of knowing why it failed"; however, in many realistic cases, there are no plausible reasons for failing except that the file does not exist.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WRITEUP
by MaherAzzouzi · poc
https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-47952

Scores

CVSS v3 3.3
EPSS 0.0246
EPSS Percentile 85.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-203
Status published
Products (1)
linuxcontainers/lxc < 5.0.1
Published Jan 01, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026