CVE-2019-5736

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-5736
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-02-11 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2024-02-02 12:15:00 UTC
Descriptionrunc through 1.0-rc6, as used in Docker before 18.09.2 and other products, allows attackers to overwrite the host runc binary (and consequently obtain host root access) by leveraging the ability to execute a command as root within one of these types of containers: (1) a new container with an attacker-controlled image, or (2) an existing container, to which the attacker previously had write access, that can be attached with docker exec. This occurs because of file-descriptor mishandling, related to /proc/self/exe.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-78

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Mesos All All All All
Application Apache Mesos All All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Operating System D2iq Dc/os All All All All
Operating System D2iq Dc/os All All All All
Application D2iq Kubernetes Engine All All All All
Application Docker Docker All All All All
Application Docker Docker All All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 29 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 29 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Application Google Kubernetes Engine - All All All
Application Google Kubernetes Engine - All All All
Application Hp Onesphere - All All All
Application Hp Onesphere - All All All
Application Linuxcontainers Lxc All All All All
Application Linuxcontainers Lxc All All All All
Application Linuxfoundation Runc 1.0.0 rc1 All All
Application Linuxfoundation Runc 1.0.0 rc2 All All
Application Linuxfoundation Runc 1.0.0 rc3 All All
Application Linuxfoundation Runc 1.0.0 rc4 All All
Application Linuxfoundation Runc 1.0.0 rc5 All All
Application Linuxfoundation Runc 1.0.0 rc6 All All
Application Linuxfoundation Runc All All All All
Application Linuxfoundation Runc 1.0.0 rc1 All All
Application Linuxfoundation Runc 1.0.0 rc2 All All
Application Linuxfoundation Runc 1.0.0 rc3 All All
Application Linuxfoundation Runc 1.0.0 rc4 All All
Application Linuxfoundation Runc 1.0.0 rc5 All All
Application Linuxfoundation Runc 1.0.0 rc6 All All
Operating System Mesosphere Dc/os All All All All
Operating System Mesosphere Dc/os All All All All
Application Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine All All All All
Application Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine All All All All
Application Microfocus Service Management Automation 2018.02 All All All
Application Microfocus Service Management Automation 2018.05 All All All
Application Microfocus Service Management Automation 2018.08 All All All
Application Microfocus Service Management Automation 2018.11 All All All
Application Microfocus Service Management Automation 2018.02 All All All
Application Microfocus Service Management Automation 2018.05 All All All
Application Microfocus Service Management Automation 2018.08 All All All
Application Microfocus Service Management Automation 2018.11 All All All
Application Netapp Hci Management Node - All All All
Application Netapp Hci Management Node - All All All
Application Netapp Solidfire - All All All
Application Netapp Solidfire - All All All
Application Opensuse Backports Sle 15.0 - All All
Application Opensuse Backports Sle 15.0 sp1 All All
Application Opensuse Backports Sle 15.0 - All All
Application Opensuse Backports Sle 15.0 sp1 All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.0 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.3 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.0 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.3 All All All
Application Redhat Container Development Kit 3.7 All All All
Application Redhat Container Development Kit 3.7 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift 3.4 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift 3.5 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift 3.6 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift 3.7 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift 3.4 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift 3.5 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift 3.6 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift 3.7 All All All

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oss-security - Re: Re: runc: CVE-2024-21626: high severity container breakout attack www.openwall.com
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Pony Mail! lists.apache.org
oss-security - Re: Membership application for linux-distros - VMware MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2019-5736 and runC vulnerability in AKS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure MISC azure.microsoft.com Patch, Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
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GitHub - q3k/cve-2019-5736-poc: Unweaponized Proof of Concept for CVE-2019-5736 (Docker escape) MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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Runc and CVE-2019-5736 - Kubernetes MISC kubernetes.io Third Party Advisory
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[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: lxcfs-3.0.4-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
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[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1481-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: runc-1.0.0-92.dev.gitc1b8c57.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
Bug 1121967 – VUL-0: CVE-2019-5736: docker-runc: container breakout vulnerability MISC bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
runc < 1.0-rc6 (Docker < 18.09.2) - Container Breakout (2) EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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CVE-2019-5736 Opencontainers-runc Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: linux-distros membership application - Microsoft MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1506-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
nsenter: clone /proc/self/exe to avoid exposing host binary to container · opencontainers/runc@0a8e411 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
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[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:2245-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Mitigating CVE-2019-5736 Impacting RunC and Docker | Twistlock MISC www.twistlock.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: runc-1.0.0-92.dev.gitc1b8c57.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
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runc < 1.0-rc6 (Docker < 18.09.2) - Container Breakout (1) - Linux local Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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merge branch 'cve-2019-5736' · opencontainers/runc@6635b4f · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
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oss-security - Re: runc: CVE-2024-21626: high severity container breakout attack www.openwall.com
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: python3-lxc-3.0.4-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: lxcfs-3.0.4-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159170 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for runc (ELSA-2021-9203)
  • 174971 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for containerd, docker, runc (SUSE-SU-2021:1458-1)
  • 377335 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for container-tools:rhel8 (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0110)
  • 500371 Alpine Linux Security Update for lxc
  • 501238 Alpine Linux Security Update for runc
  • 504128 Alpine Linux Security Update for lxc
  • 900005 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for moby-buildx 0.4.1
  • 900053 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for runc 1.0.0.rc8
  • 903220 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for moby-buildx (4424)
  • 940498 AlmaLinux Security Update for container-tools:rhel8 (ALSA-2019:0975)
  • 960701 Rocky Linux Security Update for container-tools:rhel8 (RLSA-2019:0975)
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