Google: app-emulation/containerd: security update to 16941.0.0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 452480

Description

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

- containerd is a container runtime available as a daemon for Linux and Windows. A bug was found in
containerd prior to versions 1.6.1, 1.5.10, and 1.14.12 where containers launched through containerd’s CRI
implementation on Linux with a specially-crafted image configuration could gain access to read-only copies
of arbitrary files and directories on the host. This may bypass any policy-based enforcement on container
setup (including a Kubernetes Pod Security Policy) and expose potentially sensitive information.
Kubernetes and crictl can both be configured to use containerd’s CRI implementation. This bug has been
fixed in containerd 1.6.1, 1.5.10, and 1.4.12. Users should update to these versions to resolve the issue.
(CVE-2022-23648)

Solution

Update the app-emulation/containerd library and its related packages to version 16941.0.0 or later.

See Also

https://storage.googleapis.com/cos-oval-vulnerability-feed/cos-101.oval.xml.tar.gz

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 452480

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-23648

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23648