CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-38496

3.3 LOW Published 2023-07-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-07-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-269, CWE-271

Description

Apptainer is an open source container platform. Version 1.2.0-rc.2 introduced an ineffective privilege drop when requesting container network setup, therefore subsequent functions are called with root privileges, the attack surface is rather limited for users but an attacker could possibly craft a starter config to delete any directory on the host filesystems. A security fix has been included in Apptainer 1.2.1. There is no known workaround outside of upgrading to Apptainer 1.2.1.

Affected configurations

• lfprojects apptainer 1.2.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
  • CWE-271 Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors weakness

References