GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-4g74-7cff-xcv8 youki container escape via "masked path" abuse due to mount race conditions

HIGH Published 2025-11-05 Modified 2025-11-15 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-62161
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
youki
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-363, CWE-61
Reviewed
2025-11-05

Affected packages

• crates.io youki: < 0.5.7 → fixed in 0.5.7

Description

Impact ### youki utilizes bind mounting the container's `/dev/null` as a file mask. When performing this operation, the initial validation of the source `/dev/null` was insufficient. Specifically, we initially failed to verify whether `/dev/null` was genuinely present. However, we did perform validation to ensure that the `/dev/null` path existed within the container, including checking for symbolic links. Additionally, there was a vulnerability in the timing between validation and the actual mount operation. As a result, by replacing `/dev/null` with a symbolic link, we can bind-mount arbitrary files from the host system. This is a different project, but the core logic is similar to the CVE in runc. Issues were identified in runc, and verification was also conducted in youki to confirm the problems. https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-9493-h29p-rfm2 Credits Thanks to Lei Wang (@ssst0n3 from Huawei) for finding and reporting the original runc's vulnerability (Attack 1), and Li Fubang (@lifubang from acmcoder.com, CIIC) for discovering another attack vector in runc (Attack 2) based on @ssst0n3's initial findings. Also, @cyphar helped youki in finding the problem.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-62161 Youki is a container runtime written in Rust. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-363 Race Condition Enabling Link Following weakness
  • CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following weakness

References