CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-2023

6.3 MEDIUM Published 2020-06-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-06-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
3.8 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-250

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• katacontainers runtime (<= 1.9) • katacontainers runtime (>= 1.10 < 1.10.5) • katacontainers runtime (>= 1.11 < 1.11.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges weakness

References