CVE-2023-27561: Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference

March 3, 2023 (updated November 7, 2023)

runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom images. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2019-19921 regression.

References

gist.github.com/LiveOverflow/c937820b688922eb127fb760ce06dab9
github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/2197
github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/3751
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-27561

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