CVE-2020-27151

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 8.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2020-12-07

Last modified

2024-08-04

Affected products

• Kata Containers (Katacontainers)

References

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234
• https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0
• https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5
• https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0