CVE-2018-10856

podman: Containers run as non-root users do not drop capabilities

Severity Score

8.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

It has been discovered that podman before version 0.6.1 does not drop capabilities when executing a container as a non-root user. This results in unnecessary privileges being granted to the container.

Se ha descubierto que podman en versiones anteriores a la 0.6.1 no deja capacidades cuando ejecuta un contenedor como usuario no-root. Esto resulta en que se otorgan privilegios innecesarios al contenedor.

It has been discovered that podman does not drop capabilities when executing a container as a non-root user. This results in unnecessary privileges being granted to the container.

The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes. Issues addressed include a problem where containers run as non-root users do not drop capabilities.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

Low

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2018-05-09 CVE Reserved
2018-06-26 CVE Published
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
2025-04-17 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

CAPEC

References (5)

URL	Tag	Source
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10856	Issue Tracking

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/projectatomic/libpod/commit/bae80a0b663925ec751ad2784ca32989403cdc24	2019-10-09

URL	Date	SRC
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2037	2019-10-09
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10856	2018-06-26
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1592166	2018-06-26

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Libpod Project Search vendor "Libpod Project"		Libpod Search vendor "Libpod Project" for product "Libpod"				< 0.6.1 Search vendor "Libpod Project" for product "Libpod" and version " < 0.6.1"		-		Affected