CVSS 3.1
7.0 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2023-27561
High (7.0). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in github.com/opencontainers/runc 1.1.5.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 38% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-706
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- linuxfoundation:runc
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:openshift_container_platform
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-vpvm-3wq2-2wvm | Go | github.com/opencontainers/runc | >=1.0.0-rc95 <1.1.5 | 1.1.5 |
| GO-2023-1627 | Go | github.com/opencontainers/runc | >=1.0.0-rc95 <1.1.5 | 1.1.5 |
References
- https://gist.github.com/LiveOverflow/c937820b688922eb127fb760ce06dab9
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/2197#issuecomment-1437617334
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/3751
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00023.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANUGDBJ7NBUMSUFZUSKU3ZMQYZ2Z3STN/