CVE-2020-2023 (GCVE-0-2020-2023)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-06-10 17:30 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:15
VLAI
Title
Kata Containers - Containers have access to the guest root filesystem device
Summary
Kata Containers doesn't restrict containers from accessing the guest's root filesystem device. Malicious containers can exploit this to gain code execution on the guest and masquerade as the kata-agent. This issue affects Kata Containers 1.11 versions earlier than 1.11.1; Kata Containers 1.10 versions earlier than 1.10.5; and Kata Containers 1.9 and earlier versions.
Severity
3.8 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Assigner
palo_alto CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard A 95/100 over 96 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Kata Containers Kata Containers Affected: 1.11 , < 1.11.1 (custom)
Affected: 1.10 , < 1.10.5 (custom)
Affected: 1 , ≤ 1.9 (custom)
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Date Public
2020-06-10 00:00
Credits
Yuval Avrahami, Palo Alto Networks
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