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high 7.5

CVE-2022-2738 json

The version of podman as released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras via RHSA-2022:2190 advisory included an incorrect version of podman…

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-34980

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 60%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The version of podman as released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras via RHSA-2022:2190 advisory included an incorrect version of podman missing the fix for CVE-2020-8945, which was previously fixed via RHSA-2020:2117. This issue could possibly be used to crash or cause potential code execution in Go applications that use the Go GPGME wrapper library, under certain conditions, during GPG signature verification.

Patch / fix

  • podman RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 1.6.4-36.el7_9
  • podman-docker RHEL 7 EXTRAS_OTHER 1.6.4-36.el7_9

red hat advisories RHSA-2022:6119

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red hat product security vex CVE-2022-2738 updated cvss 7.5

podman: Security regression of CVE-2020-8945 due to source code management issue

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras podman 1.6.4-36.el7_9, podman-docker 1.6.4-36.el7_9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:6119
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 podman, podman-tests, podman-docker, podman-remote, podman-gvproxy, podman-plugins, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 podman, podman-tests, podman-docker, podman-remote, podman-gvproxy, podman-plugins, +1 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 60% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • n/a podman

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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