GHSA-6978-vg2j-cc9q

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    GHSA-6978-vg2j-cc9q

    Published: 15 Feb 2022Last Modified: 8 Nov 2023
    Aliases:
    CVE-2020-2023

    Summary: Improper Privilege Management and Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in Kata Containers

    Details: Kata Containers doesn't restrict containers from accessing the guest's root filesystem device. Malicious containers can exploit this to gain code execution on the guest and masquerade as the kata-agent. This issue affects Kata Containers 1.11 versions earlier than 1.11.1; Kata Containers 1.10 versions earlier than 1.10.5; and Kata Containers 1.9 and earlier versions.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-2023, https://github.com/kata-containers/agent/issues/791, https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/2488, https://github.com/kata-containers/agent/pull/792, https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/2477, https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/2487, https://github.com/kata-containers, https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.10.5, https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: github.com/kata-containers/agent

    Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/kata-containers/agent

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.9.1

    Affected versions

    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