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CVE-2020-15229: Path Traversal

October 14, 2020 (updated November 2, 2020)

Singularity (an open source container platform) from has a vulnerability. Due to insecure handling of path traversal and the lack of path sanitization within unsquashfs, it is possible to overwrite/create any files on the host filesystem during the extraction with a crafted squashfs filesystem. The extraction occurs automatically for unprivileged (either installation or with allow setuid = no) run of Singularity when a user attempt to run an image which is a local SIF image or a single file containing a squashfs filesystem and is coming from remote sources library://orshub://.Image build is also impacted in a more serious way as it can be used by a root user, allowing an attacker tooverwrite/createfiles leading to a system compromise, so far bootstrap methodslibrary, shubandlocalimage` are triggering the squashfs extraction. This issue is addressed in Singularity All users are advised to upgrade to especially if they use Singularity mainly for building image as root user.

References

  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15229

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 3.1.1 up to 3.6.3

Solution

Unfortunately, there is no solution available yet.

Impact 9.3 CRITICAL

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Source file

go/github.com/sylabs/singularity/internal/pkg/runtime/engines/singularity/CVE-2020-15229.yml

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