Vulnerability CVE-2019-18837
Published: 2019-11-13   Modified: 2019-11-14

Description:
An issue was discovered in crun before 0.10.5. With a crafted image, it doesn't correctly check whether a target is a symlink, resulting in access to files outside of the container. This occurs in libcrun/linux.c and libcrun/chroot_realpath.c.

Type:

CWE-59

 (Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 
Crun project -> CRUN 

 References:
https://github.com/containers/crun/pull/173
https://github.com/containers/crun/releases/tag/0.10.5
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DTA5SJUAKQUK6HRY2CZVJUIZP5BO3EOG/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ITB2UNEGHXZUR3ATYHWPSK5LJB36N7AP/
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