CVE-2020-27151

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    CVE-2020-27151

    Published: 7 Dec 2020Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: 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, https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.0.0-alpha1
    2.0.0-alpha2
    2.0.0-alpha3
    2.0.0-rc0
    2.0.0-rc1

    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
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