Directory Traversal Affecting buildah package, versions <1.14.4-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.45% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE320-BUILDAH-7008112
  • published 23 May 2024
  • disclosed 31 Mar 2020

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 buildah to version 1.14.4-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream buildah package and not the buildah package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

A path traversal flaw was found in Buildah in versions before 1.14.5. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into building a malicious container image hosted on an HTTP(s) server and then write files to the user's system anywhere that the user has permissions.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

8.8 high
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Red Hat

8.8 high