CVE-2021-30465

2021-05-1910:37:54

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8.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

58.2%

JSON

The runc package is vulnerable to a symlink exchange attack whereby an attacker can request a seemingly innocuous container configuration that results in the host filesystem being bind-mounted into the container. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as to system availability.

Mitigation

The impact of the vulnerability is reduced if SELinux is in enforcing mode using the container-selinux policy. The container-selinux policy is installed and enabled by default on RHEL 7 and 8, as well as OpenShift Container Platform 3.x and 4.x.

Customers running affected versions of RHEL are strongly recommended to apply RPM updates from the RHEL 8 channel and RHEL 7 Extras channel as soon as errata becomes available.

Customers running affected versions of OpenShift Container Platform are strongly recommended to upgrade as soon as errata becomes available.

Customers of OpenShift Online or OpenShift Dedicated have SELinux enabled in enforcing mode in every host across all clusters. Therefore, It is expected that OSO/OSD both have a reduced impact from this issue, with security patches made available during upcoming maintenance windows.