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CVE-2022-2738

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2738 describes a vulnerability in specific versions of Podman, particularly those released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras, which inadvertently reintroduced a fix for CVE-2020-8945. This flaw could lead to crashes or potential code execution in Go applications utilizing the Go GPGME wrapper library during GPG signature verification. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), exploitation requires user interaction and high attack complexity, but could result in significant impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.4-32.el7_9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:podman_project:podman:1.6.4-32.el7_9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0074 is in the 41st percentile among its peer group of 1,570 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.2 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.6 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ExtrasFixed in: podman-0:1.6.4-36.el7_9
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-2738Moderate

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

Aug 19, 2022

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2022-2738
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory