High (7.0). EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in chainguard.dev/apko 0.29.5.
apko allows users to build and publish OCI container images built from apk packages. Starting in version 0.27.0 and prior to version 0.29.5, critical files were inadvertently set to 0666, which could likely be abused for root escalation. Version 0.29.5 contains a fix for the issue.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
7.0 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
EPSS
0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 3% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)