Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-2023 - Unspecified vulnerability in Katacontainers Runtime
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
LOW Integrity impact
LOW Availability impact
LOW Summary
Kata Containers doesn't restrict containers from accessing the guest's root filesystem device. Malicious containers can exploit this to gain code execution on the guest and masquerade as the kata-agent. This issue affects Kata Containers 1.11 versions earlier than 1.11.1; Kata Containers 1.10 versions earlier than 1.10.5; and Kata Containers 1.9 and earlier versions.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://github.com/kata-containers/agent/issues/791
- https://github.com/kata-containers/agent/issues/791
- https://github.com/kata-containers/agent/pull/792
- https://github.com/kata-containers/agent/pull/792
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/2488
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/2488
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/2477
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/2477
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/2487
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/2487
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.10.5
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.10.5
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.1
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.1