Improper Privilege Management Affecting github.com/kata-containers/agent package, versions <1.10.5>=1.11.0 <1.11.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMKATACONTAINERSAGENT-2636024
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed15 Feb 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Feb 2022

CVE-2020-2023  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-250  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/kata-containers/agent to version 1.10.5, 1.11.1 or higher.

Overview

github.com/kata-containers/agent is an implements an agent called kata-agent that runs inside a virtual machine (VM). The agent manages container processes inside the VM, on behalf of the runtime running on the host.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management by not restricting containers from accessing the guest's root filesystem device. Malicious containers can exploit this to gain code execution on the guest and masquerade as the kata-agent.

CVSS Scores

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