CVE-2021-3602
Publication date 3 March 2022
Last updated 11 July 2025
Ubuntu priority
Cvss 3 Severity Score
Description
An information disclosure flaw was found in Buildah, when building containers using chroot isolation. Running processes in container builds (e.g. Dockerfile RUN commands) can access environment variables from parent and grandparent processes. When run in a container in a CI/CD environment, environment variables may include sensitive information that was shared with the container in order to be used only by Buildah itself (e.g. container registry credentials).
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| golang-github-containers-buildah | 25.10 questing |
Vulnerable
|
| 25.04 plucky |
Vulnerable
|
|
| 24.04 LTS noble |
Vulnerable
|
|
| 22.04 LTS jammy |
Vulnerable
|
|
| 20.04 LTS focal | Not in release | |
| 18.04 LTS bionic | Not in release | |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Ignored end of standard support | |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score |
|
| Attack vector | Local |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | Low |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity impact | None |
| Availability impact | None |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References
Other references
- https://github.com/containers/buildah/security/advisories/GHSA-7638-r9r3-rmjj
- https://github.com/containers/buildah/commit/a468ce0ffd347035d53ee0e26c205ef604097fb0 (main)
- https://github.com/containers/buildah/commit/23c478b815fb93c094070baa336bcb6a27c01683 (release-1.21)
- https://github.com/containers/buildah/commit/f4f2a7fc78fa4f12e2f6e6c4ab450aae0d182f3e (release-1.19)
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3602