CVE-2023-25809
Public on 2023-03-29
Modified on 2024-04-29
Description
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In affected versions it was found that rootless runc makes `/sys/fs/cgroup` writable in following conditons: 1. when runc is executed inside the user namespace, and the `config.json` does not specify the cgroup namespace to be unshared (e.g.., `(docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=host`, with Rootless Docker/Podman/nerdctl) or 2. when runc is executed outside the user namespace, and `/sys` is mounted with `rbind, ro` (e.g., `runc spec --rootless`; this condition is very rare). A container may gain the write access to user-owned cgroup hierarchy `/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/...` on the host . Other users's cgroup hierarchies are not affected. Users are advised to upgrade to version 1.1.5. Users unable to upgrade may unshare the cgroup namespace (`(docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=private)`. This is the default behavior of Docker/Podman/nerdctl on cgroup v2 hosts. or add `/sys/fs/cgroup` to `maskedPaths`.
Severity
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux 1 | runc | Pending Fix | ||
Amazon Linux 2 - Docker Extra | runc | 2023-05-25 | ALAS2DOCKER-2023-025 | Fixed |
Amazon Linux 2 - Ecs Extra | runc | 2023-05-25 | ALAS2ECS-2023-004 | Fixed |
Amazon Linux 2 - Aws-nitro-enclaves-cli Extra | runc | 2023-05-25 | ALAS2NITRO-ENCLAVES-2023-024 | Fixed |
Amazon Linux 2023 | runc | 2023-06-07 | ALAS2023-2023-208 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 2.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 5.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |