Race Condition Enabling Link Following Affecting libcgroups package, versions <0.5.7
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- published7 Nov 2025
- disclosed5 Nov 2025
- creditLei Wang, lfbzhm
Introduced: 5 Nov 2025
NewCVE-2025-62161 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade libcgroups to version 0.5.7 or higher.
Overview
libcgroups is a libcgroups
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition Enabling Link Following via insufficient validation of the source /dev/null during the bind mounting process. An attacker can escape the container environment by exploiting a race condition in the mounting of masked paths.
Note:
This vulnerability has a similar logic to CVE-2025-31133 in runc