CVE-2020-1706

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Mar 9, 2020
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Nov 27, 2019

Description

It has been found that in openshift-enterprise version 3.11 and openshift-enterprise versions 4.1 up to, including 4.3, multiple containers modify the permissions of /etc/passwd to make them modifiable by users other than root. An attacker with access to the running container can exploit this to modify /etc/passwd to add a user and escalate their privileges. This CVE is specific to the openshift/apb-tools-container.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-732

Affected Products

Product	Versions
openshift/apb-tools-containerRed Hat	openshift-enterprise version 3.11Affected from openshift-enterprise version 4.1 to, including 4.3Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1706

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