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CVE-2020-27151 (GCVE-0-2020-27151)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-07 13:03 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:11
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Summary
An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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