CVE-2023-27561 (GCVE-0-2023-27561)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-03 00:00 – Updated: 2025-12-16 20:02
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-04-26 04:00 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-706 - Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference
Assigner
References
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