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HistoryMar 29, 2023 - 6:22 p.m.

CVE-2023-25809 rootless: `/sys/fs/cgroup` is writable when cgroupns isn't unshared in runc

2023-03-2918:22:56
CWE-281
GitHub_M
www.cve.org
rootless runc
vulnerability
writable
/sys/fs/cgroup
user namespace
cgroupns
unshared
upgrade
docker
podman
nerdctl
maskedpaths

5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

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

7.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.0%

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.gโ€ฆ, (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 usersโ€™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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "opencontainers",
    "product": "runc",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "< 1.1.5",
        "status": "affected"
      }
    ]
  }
]

5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

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

7.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.0%