GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-j26p-6wx7-f3pw Youki: If /proc and /sys in the rootfs are symbolic links, they can potentially be exploited to gain access to the host root filesystem.
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-54867
- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- youki
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-61
- Reviewed
- 2025-08-14
Affected packages
• crates.io youki: < 0.5.5 → fixed in 0.5.5
Description
Summary
If `/proc` and `/sys` in the rootfs are symbolic links, they can potentially be exploited to gain access to the host root filesystem.
Details
For security reasons, container creation should be prohibited if `/proc` or `/sys` in the rootfs is a symbolic link.
I verified this behavior with `youki`.
When `/proc` or `/sys` is a symbolic link, `runc` fails to create the container, whereas `youki` successfully creates it.
This is the fix related to this issue in `runc`.
• https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/3756
• https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/3773
• https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/blob/main/libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go#L590
• https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/blob/main/tests/integration/mask.bats#L60
Impact
The following advisory appears to be related to this vulnerability:
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vpvm-3wq2-2wvm
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fh74-hm69-rqjw
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-54867 Youki is a container runtime written in Rust. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following weakness
References
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/security/advisories/GHSA-j26p-6wx7-f3pw web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54867 advisory
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/commit/0d9b4f2aa5ceaf988f3eb568711d2acf0a4ace37 web
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki package
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/releases/tag/v0.5.5 web