CVE-2022-2738

7.5 highEPSS 0.9%

High (7.5). EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The version of podman as released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras via RHSA-2022:2190 advisory included an incorrect version of podman missing the fix for CVE-2020-8945, which was previously fixed via RHSA-2020:2117. This issue could possibly be used to crash or cause potential code execution in Go applications that use the Go GPGME wrapper library, under certain conditions, during GPG signature verification.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

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

EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 60% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-416
Published: 2022-09-01
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

podman_project:podman
redhat:enterprise_linux_server
redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2738
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2116923
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2738
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2116923

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