Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package singularity-container  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-SINGULARITYCONTAINER-651560
  • published11 Jul 2018
  • disclosed5 Jul 2018

Introduced: 5 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-12021  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream singularity-container package and not the singularity-container package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Singularity 2.3.0 through 2.5.1 is affected by an incorrect access control on systems supporting overlay file system. When using the overlay option, a malicious user may access sensitive information by exploiting a few specific Singularity features.