CVE-2023-27561

runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom images. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2019-19921 regression.

Score: CVSS 3.1 7.0 High
Status: Modified - cve@mitre.org
Published: 2023-03-03
Last modified: 2025-12-16
Weaknesses: CWE-706

Affected products

References

https://gist.github.com/LiveOverflow/c937820b688922eb127fb760ce06dab9
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/2197#issuecomment-1437617334
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/3751
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00023.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANUGDBJ7NBUMSUFZUSKU3Z…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DHGVGGMKGZSJ7YO67TGGPF…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNB2UEDIIJCRQW4WJLZOPQ…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FYVE3GB4OG3BNT5DLQHYO4…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I6BF24VCZRFTYBTT3T7HDZ…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241206-0004/