Vulnerability CVE-2023-27561


Published: 2023-03-03

Description:
runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom images. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2019-19921 regression.

 References:
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/3751
https://gist.github.com/LiveOverflow/c937820b688922eb127fb760ce06dab9
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/2197#issuecomment-1437617334

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