USN-4653-1

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    USN-4653-1

    Published: 30 Nov 2020Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: containerd vulnerability

    Details: It was discovered that access controls for the shim’s API socket did not restrict access to the abstract unix domain socket in some cases. An attacker could use this vulnerability to run containers with elevated privileges.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4653-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-15257

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: containerd

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.04.5?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.2.6-0ubuntu1~16.04.5

    Affected versions

    0.2.1-0ubuntu4~16.04
    0.2.3-0ubuntu1~16.04
    0.2.5-0ubuntu1~16.04.1

    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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