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CVE-2020-27151

Published: Dec 07, 2020 | Modified: Dec 08, 2020
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
9 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27151
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Kata_containers Katacontainers * 1.11.3 (including)
Kata_containers Katacontainers 2.0.0-alpha1 (including) 2.0.0-alpha1 (including)
Kata_containers Katacontainers 2.0.0-alpha2 (including) 2.0.0-alpha2 (including)
Kata_containers Katacontainers 2.0.0-alpha3 (including) 2.0.0-alpha3 (including)
Kata_containers Katacontainers 2.0.0-rc0 (including) 2.0.0-rc0 (including)
Kata_containers Katacontainers 2.0.0-rc1 (including) 2.0.0-rc1 (including)

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