CVE-2025-65105 (GCVE-0-2025-65105)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-02 17:49 – Updated: 2025-12-02 18:46
VLAI?
Title
Apptainer ineffective application of selinux and apparmor --security options
Summary
Apptainer is an open source container platform. In Apptainer versions less than 1.4.5, a container can disable two of the forms of the little used --security option, in particular the forms --security=apparmor:<profile> and --security=selinux:<label> which otherwise put restrictions on operations that containers can do. The --security option has always been mentioned in Apptainer documentation as being a feature for the root user, although these forms do also work for unprivileged users on systems where the corresponding feature is enabled. Apparmor is enabled by default on Debian-based distributions and SElinux is enabled by default on RHEL-based distributions, but on SUSE it depends on the distribution version. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.5.
Severity ?
4.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-61 - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
  • CWE-706 - Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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