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Information Exposure in RunC

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 20, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/opencontainers/runc (Go)

Affected versions

<= 1.0.0-rc2

Patched versions

1.0.0-rc3

Description

RunC allowed additional container processes via 'runc exec' to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the container, if running as root, to gain access to file-descriptors of these new processes during the initialization and can lead to container escapes or modification of runC state before the process is fully placed inside the container.

References

Reviewed May 20, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 20, 2021
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate
6.4
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-9962

GHSA ID

GHSA-gp4j-w3vj-7299

Source code

No known source code
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