Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package opencontainers/runc  (opens in a new tab)


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10.25% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENCONTAINERSRUNC-2364854
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 May 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 May 2021

CVE-2021-30465  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal runc before 1.0.0-rc95 allows a Container Filesystem Breakout via Directory Traversal. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker must be able to create multiple containers with a fairly specific mount configuration. The problem occurs via a symlink-exchange attack that relies on a race condition.