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CVE-2023-25809: Improper Preservation of Permissions

March 29, 2023 (updated November 9, 2023)

runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In affected versions it was found that rootless runc makes /sys/fs/cgroup writable in following conditons: 1. when runc is executed inside the user namespace, and the config.json does not specify the cgroup namespace to be unshared (e.g.., (docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=host, with Rootless Docker/Podman/nerdctl) or 2. when runc is executed outside the user namespace, and /sys is mounted with rbind, ro (e.g., runc spec --rootless; this condition is very rare). A container may gain the write access to user-owned cgroup hierarchy /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/... on the host . Other user’s cgroup hierarchies are not affected. Users are advised to upgrade to version 1.1.5. Users unable to upgrade may unshare the cgroup namespace ((docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=private). This is the default behavior of Docker/Podman/nerdctl on cgroup v2 hosts. or add /sys/fs/cgroup to maskedPaths.

References

  • github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/0d62b950e60f6980b54fe3bafd9a9c608dc1df17
  • github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-m8cg-xc2p-r3fc
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25809

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.1.5

Fixed versions

  • v1.1.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.1.5 or above.

Impact 6.3 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

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Weakness

  • CWE-281: Improper Preservation of Permissions

Source file

go/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/CVE-2023-25809.yml

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