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Improper Privilege Management Affecting github.com/containerd/containerd/pkg/process package, versions <1.3.0-beta.0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMCONTAINERDCONTAINERDPKGPROCESS-536210
  • published 28 Nov 2019
  • disclosed 26 Nov 2018
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 26 Nov 2018

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How 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.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

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