CVE-2019-5736

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    CVE-2019-5736

    Published: 11 Feb 2019Last Modified: 27 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: runc through 1.0-rc6, as used in Docker before 18.09.2 and other products, allows attackers to overwrite the host runc binary (and consequently obtain host root access) by leveraging the ability to execute a command as root within one of these types of containers: (1) a new container with an attacker-controlled image, or (2) an existing container, to which the attacker previously had write access, that can be attached with docker exec. This occurs because of file-descriptor mishandling, related to /proc/self/exe.

    References: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/31/6, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/01/1, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/02/3, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/24e54e3c6b2259e3903b6b8fe26896ac649c481ea99c5739468c92a3%40%3Cdev.dlab.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a258757af84c5074dc7bf932622020fd4f60cef65a84290380386706%40%3Cuser.mesos.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a585f64d14c31ab393b90c5f17e41d9765a1a17eec63856ce750af46%40%3Cdev.dlab.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/acacf018c12636e41667e94ac0a1e9244e887eef2debdd474640aa6e%40%3Cdev.dlab.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b162dd624dc088cd634292f0402282a1d1d0ce853baeae8205bc033c%40%3Cdev.mesos.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc494623986d76593873ce5a40dd69cb3629400d10750d5d7e96b8587%40%3Cdev.dlab.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf1bbc0ea4a9f014cf94df9a12a6477d24a27f52741dbc87f2fd52ff2%40%3Cissues.geode.apache.org%3E, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DLC52IOJN6IQJWJ6CUI6AIUP6GVVG2QP/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EGZKRCKI3Y7FMADO2MENMT4TU24QGHFR/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SWFJGIPYAAAMVSWWI3QWYXGA3ZBU2H4W/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/V6A4OSFM5GGOWW4ECELV5OHX2XRAUSPH/, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00044.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00074.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00091.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00060.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00011.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00015.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00084.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00007.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00029.html, http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165197/Docker-runc-Command-Execution-Proof-Of-Concept.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/23/1, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/28/2, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/06/3, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/06/4, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/24/1, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/29/3, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106976, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0303, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0304, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0401, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0408, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0975, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-5736, https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/runcescape, https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2019-002/, https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/security-bulletins#february-11-2019-runc, https://github.com/docker/docker-ce/releases/tag/v18.09.2, https://github.com/rancher/runc-cve, https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/02/11/runc-and-cve-2019-5736/, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-21, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0008/, https://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com/document/-/facetsearch/document/KM03410944, https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190215-runc, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4048-1/, https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_06, https://www.twistlock.com/2019/02/11/how-to-mitigate-cve-2019-5736-in-runc-and-docker/, https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03913en_us, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/cve-2019-5736-and-runc-vulnerability/, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/iot-edge-fix-cve-2019-5736/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121967, https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/0a8e4117e7f715d5fbeef398405813ce8e88558b, https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/6635b4f0c6af3810594d2770f662f34ddc15b40d, https://support.mesosphere.com/s/article/Known-Issue-Container-Runtime-Vulnerability-MSPH-2019-0003, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/02/11/2, http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163339/Docker-Container-Escape.html, https://blog.dragonsector.pl/2019/02/cve-2019-5736-escape-from-docker-and.html, https://brauner.github.io/2019/02/12/privileged-containers.html, https://github.com/Frichetten/CVE-2019-5736-PoC, https://github.com/q3k/cve-2019-5736-poc, https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46359/, https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46369/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- b3fd2e7ab26e118222fe18af4b92c53a3c01e6cc

    Affected versions

    1.4.3-rc1
    1.4.2-rc1
    1.4.2
    1.4.1-rc1
    1.4.1
    1.4.0-rc5
    1.4.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High