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Opencontainers runc Incorrect Authorization vulnerability

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 3, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 16, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/opencontainers/runc (Go)

Affected versions

>= 1.0.0-rc95, < 1.1.5

Patched versions

1.1.5

Description

runc 1.0.0-rc95 through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom images. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2019-19921 regression.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 3, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 3, 2023
Reviewed Mar 3, 2023
Last updated Aug 16, 2023

Severity

High
7.0
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-27561

GHSA ID

GHSA-vpvm-3wq2-2wvm

Source code

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