Amazon Linux 2 containerd vulnerability (ALASECS-2023-030) prior to 1.4.1-2 affected by improper exposure of containerd-shim AP
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 72 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Privilege Escalation | 4 Dec 202016:29 | – | veracode |
![]() | Important: containerd | 20 Nov 202017:29 | – | amazon |
![]() | CVE-2020-15257 | 1 Dec 202003:15 | – | osv |
![]() | containerd-shim API Exposed to Host Network Containers | 24 May 202117:00 | – | osv |
![]() | containerd vulnerability | 13 Jan 202120:43 | – | osv |
![]() | containerd-shim API Exposed to Host Network Containers in github.com/containerd/containerd | 21 Aug 202415:28 | – | osv |
![]() | CGA-9v8c-6fc9-7rx7 | 6 Jun 202412:25 | – | osv |
![]() | containerd vulnerability | 30 Nov 202021:04 | – | osv |
![]() | docker.io - security update | 27 Feb 202100:00 | – | osv |
![]() | containerd-1.4.8-2.2 on GA media | 15 Jun 202400:00 | – | osv |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALASECS-2023-030.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(185923);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/11/17");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-15257");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : containerd (ALASECS-2023-030)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of containerd installed on the remote host is prior to 1.4.1-2. It is, therefore, affected by a
vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2ECS-2023-030 advisory.
- containerd is an industry-standard container runtime and is available as a daemon for Linux and Windows.
In containerd before versions 1.3.9 and 1.4.3, the containerd-shim API is improperly exposed to host
network containers. Access controls for the shim's API socket verified that the connecting process had an
effective UID of 0, but did not otherwise restrict access to the abstract Unix domain socket. This would
allow malicious containers running in the same network namespace as the shim, with an effective UID of 0
but otherwise reduced privileges, to cause new processes to be run with elevated privileges. This
vulnerability has been fixed in containerd 1.3.9 and 1.4.3. Users should update to these versions as soon
as they are released. It should be noted that containers started with an old version of containerd-shim
should be stopped and restarted, as running containers will continue to be vulnerable even after an
upgrade. If you are not providing the ability for untrusted users to start containers in the same network
namespace as the shim (typically the host network namespace, for example with docker run --net=host or
hostNetwork: true in a Kubernetes pod) and run with an effective UID of 0, you are not vulnerable to this
issue. If you are running containers with a vulnerable configuration, you can deny access to all abstract
sockets with AppArmor by adding a line similar to deny unix addr=@**, to your policy. It is best practice
to run containers with a reduced set of privileges, with a non-zero UID, and with isolated namespaces. The
containerd maintainers strongly advise against sharing namespaces with the host. Reducing the set of
isolation mechanisms used for a container necessarily increases that container's privilege, regardless of
what container runtime is used for running that container. (CVE-2020-15257)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
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script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-15257.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update containerd' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-15257");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/11/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/11/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/11/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:containerd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:containerd-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:containerd-stress");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var alas_release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(alas_release) || !strlen(alas_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d+|-\d+)", string:alas_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "2")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'containerd-1.4.1-2.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'containerd-1.4.1-2.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'containerd-debuginfo-1.4.1-2.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'containerd-debuginfo-1.4.1-2.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'containerd-stress-1.4.1-2.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'containerd-stress-1.4.1-2.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var epoch = NULL;
var allowmaj = NULL;
var exists_check = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_NOTE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "containerd / containerd-debuginfo / containerd-stress");
}
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