Access Restriction Bypass Affecting github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer package, versions >=1.0.0-rc95 <1.1.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMOPENCONTAINERSRUNCLIBCONTAINER-3339620
  • published5 Mar 2023
  • disclosed5 Mar 2023
  • creditAkihiroSuda

Introduced: 5 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-27561  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer to version 1.1.5 or higher.

Overview

github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer is a package for a modern container runtime.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass when an attacker is able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations and be able to run custom images.

Note: this issue exists because of a CVE-2019-19921 regression.

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