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CVE-2022-38060

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CVE-2022-38060 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability within the sudo functionality of OpenStack Kolla git master 05194e7618, stemming from a misconfiguration in the /etc/sudoers file inside a container. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) allows a local attacker with low privileges to achieve significant impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploits, public exploit code, or significant community discussion have been observed, the potential for a complete system compromise remains.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:kolla:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
11.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 40th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: kollaFixed in: 15.0.0.0rc1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 for RHEL 8Fixed in: openstack-tripleo-common-0:15.4.1-17.1.20230927003755.el8ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 for RHEL 9Fixed in: openstack-tripleo-common-0:15.4.1-17.1.20230927010819.el9ost
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0Fixed in: python-tcib
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1Fixed in: openstack-tripleo-common
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2Fixed in: openstack-tripleo-common

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-rvxr-pf5f-j2qjhigh

OpenStack Kolla sudo privilege escalation vulnerability

Dec 21, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-38060Important

openstack/kolla: sudo privilege escalation vulnerability

Sep 6, 2022

References

talosintelligence.com / vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1589
Third Party Advisory