CVE-2023-27561
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.0 High
- Published
- Mar 3, 2023
- Updated
- Dec 16, 2025
- Reserved
- Mar 3, 2023
Description
runc 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.
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 | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-706 Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/3751
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/2197#issuecomment-1437617334
- https://gist.github.com/LiveOverflow/c937820b688922eb127fb760ce06dab9
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230327 [SECURITY] [DLA 3369-1] runc security updatemailing-list
- FEDORA-2023-1bcbb1db39vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2023-3cccbc4c95vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2023-1ba499965fvendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2023-9edf2145fbvendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2023-6e6d9065e0vendor-advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241206-0004/
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