FKIE_CVE-2020-27151

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-12-07 14:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:08
Severity
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
katacontainers kata_containers *
katacontainers kata_containers 2.0.0
katacontainers kata_containers 2.0.0
katacontainers kata_containers 2.0.0
katacontainers kata_containers 2.0.0
katacontainers kata_containers 2.0.0
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T03:08:52.143",
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