A path traversal flaw was found in Buildah in versions before 1.14.5. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into building a malicious container image hosted on an HTTP(s) server and then write files to the user's system anywhere that the user has permissions.

Specific Go Packages Affected

github.com/containers/buildah/imagebuildah

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10696
• containers/buildah#2245
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-10696
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1817651
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10696