CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-27151
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-12-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• katacontainers kata containers (<= 1.11.3)
• katacontainers kata containers 2.0.0
References
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0 Third Party Advisory