Improper Access Control Affecting github.com/containerd/containerd/archive package, versions >=1.5.0 <1.5.4<1.4.8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMCONTAINERDCONTAINERDARCHIVE-1320090
  • published20 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Jul 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-32760  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/containerd/containerd/archive to version 1.5.4, 1.4.8 or higher.

Overview

github.com/containerd/containerd/archive is an an open and reliable container runtime.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. Pulling and extracting a specially-crafted container image can result in Unix file permission changes for existing files in the host’s filesystem. This bug does not directly allow files to be read, modified, or executed without an additional cooperating process.

CVSS Base Scores

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