CVSS 3.1
3.3 lowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NCVE-2023-38496
Low (3.3) in lfprojects apptainer. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in github.com/apptainer/apptainer 1.2.1.
Apptainer is an open source container platform. Version 1.2.0-rc.2 introduced an ineffective privilege drop when requesting container network setup, therefore subsequent functions are called with root privileges, the attack surface is rather limited for users but an attacker could possibly craft a starter config to delete any directory on the host filesystems. A security fix has been included in Apptainer 1.2.1. There is no known workaround outside of upgrading to Apptainer 1.2.1.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 17% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-269, CWE-271
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- lfprojects:apptainer
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-mmx5-32m4-wxvx | Go | github.com/apptainer/apptainer | >=1.2.0 <1.2.1 | 1.2.1 |
| GO-2023-1965 | Go | github.com/apptainer/apptainer | >=1.2.0 <1.2.1 | 1.2.1 |