Improper Privilege Management Affecting github.com/containerd/containerd/pkg/process Open this link in a new tab package, versions <1.3.0-beta.0
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMCONTAINERDCONTAINERDPKGPROCESS-536210
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published
28 Nov 2019
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disclosed
26 Nov 2018
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credit
Unknown
Introduced: 26 Nov 2018
CWE-269 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade github.com/containerd/containerd/pkg/process
to version 1.3.0-beta.0 or higher.
Overview
github.com/containerd/containerd/pkg/process is an open and reliable container runtime.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management. Due to the usage of unix.Kill
to kill a exec process, the pid in execProcess does not get deleted after a exec process has been stopped. Under certain conditions, it might be possible to for unprivileged process reuse generated pid and gain access to its privileges.