CVE-2025-65105

Apptainer ineffective application of selinux and apparmor --security options

State
Published
Severity
4.5 Medium
Published
Dec 2, 2025
Updated
Dec 2, 2025
Reserved
Nov 17, 2025

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Description

Apptainer is an open source container platform. In Apptainer versions less than 1.4.5, a container can disable two of the forms of the little used --security option, in particular the forms --security=apparmor:<profile> and --security=selinux:<label> which otherwise put restrictions on operations that containers can do. The --security option has always been mentioned in Apptainer documentation as being a feature for the root user, although these forms do also work for unprivileged users on systems where the corresponding feature is enabled. Apparmor is enabled by default on Debian-based distributions and SElinux is enabled by default on RHEL-based distributions, but on SUSE it depends on the distribution version. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.5.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
  • CWE-706 Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference

Affected Products

ProductVersions
apptainerapptainer
  • < 1.4.5Affected

References

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