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SCA: security update for github.com/docker/docker, github.com/moby/moby (GHSA-2mm7-x5h6-5pvq)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433911

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Moby is an open-source project created by Docker to enable and accelerate software containerization. A bug
 was found in Moby (Docker Engine) prior to version 20.10.14 where containers were incorrectly started with
 non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities, creating an atypical Linux environment and enabling
 programs with inheritable file capabilities to elevate those capabilities to the permitted set during
 `execve(2)`. Normally, when executable programs have specified permitted file capabilities, otherwise
 unprivileged users and processes can execute those programs and gain the specified file capabilities up to
 the bounding set. Due to this bug, containers which included executable programs with inheritable file
 capabilities allowed otherwise unprivileged users and processes to additionally gain these inheritable
 file capabilities up to the container's bounding set. Containers which use Linux users and groups to
 perform privilege separation inside the container are most directly impacted. This bug did not affect the
 container security sandbox as the inheritable set never contained more capabilities than were included in
 the container's bounding set. This bug has been fixed in Moby (Docker Engine) 20.10.14. Running containers
 should be stopped, deleted, and recreated for the inheritable capabilities to be reset. This fix changes
 Moby (Docker Engine) behavior such that containers are started with a more typical Linux environment. As a
 workaround, the entry point of a container can be modified to use a utility like `capsh(1)` to drop
 inheritable capabilities prior to the primary process starting. (CVE-2022-24769)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2mm7-x5h6-5pvq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433911

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.57

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24769

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/24/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24769

cwe: CWE-732