CVE-2022-47952

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2022-47952. PoCs published by MaherAzzouzi.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository contains a detailed writeup for CVE-2022-47952, an information disclosure vulnerability in lxc-user-nic. The vulnerability allows local users to infer the existence of files in protected directories due to differing error messages.

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.