Vulnerability CVE-2020-27151
Published: 2020-12-07

Description:
An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.

Type:

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9/10
10/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Katacontainers -> Kata containers 

 References:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234
https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0
https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5
https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0
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