CVE-2020-2023
Kata Containers - Containers have access to the guest root filesystem device
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 3.8 Low
- Published
- Jun 10, 2020
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 4, 2019
Description
Kata Containers doesn't restrict containers from accessing the guest's root filesystem device. Malicious containers can exploit this to gain code execution on the guest and masquerade as the kata-agent. This issue affects Kata Containers 1.11 versions earlier than 1.11.1; Kata Containers 1.10 versions earlier than 1.10.5; and Kata Containers 1.9 and earlier versions.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 3.8 Low | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N | palo_alto |
Weaknesses
- CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Kata ContainersKata Containers |
|
References
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/2487
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/2477
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/2488
- https://github.com/kata-containers/agent/issues/791
- https://github.com/kata-containers/agent/pull/792
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.1
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.10.5
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