CVE-2020-10696

Summary

CVECVE-2020-10696
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-03-31 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:14:00 UTC
DescriptionA path traversal flaw was found in Buildah in versions before 1.14.5. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into building a malicious container image hosted on an HTTP(s) server and then write files to the user's system anywhere that the user has permissions.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Buildah Project Buildah All All All All
Application Buildah Project Buildah All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift Container Platform 3.11 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift Container Platform 3.11 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1817651 – (CVE-2020-10696) CVE-2020-10696 buildah: Crafted input tar file may lead to local file overwrite during image build process CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Fix potential CVE in tarfile w/ symlink by TomSweeneyRedHat · Pull Request #2245 · containers/buildah · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 377377 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for container-tools:rhel8 (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0013)
  • 501807 Alpine Linux Security Update for buildah
  • 504589 Alpine Linux Security Update for buildah
  • 750353 OpenSUSE Security Update for buildah, libcontainers-common, podman (openSUSE-SU-2021:0310-1)
  • 750534 OpenSUSE Security Update for buildah (openSUSE-SU-2020:2106-1)
  • 751850 OpenSUSE Security Update for buildah (openSUSE-SU-2022:0770-1)
  • 752641 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for buildah (SUSE-SU-2022:3480-1)
  • 752726 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for buildah (SUSE-SU-2022:3766-1)
  • 752967 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for buildah (SUSE-SU-2022:4350-1)
  • 752975 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for buildah (SUSE-SU-2022:4349-1)
  • 753101 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for buildah (SUSE-SU-2022:0770-1)
  • 753242 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for buildah (SUSE-SU-2022:3655-1)
  • 770021 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.12 Security Update (RHSA-2020:1396)
  • 770022 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2.28 Security Update (RHSA-2020:1401)
  • 770023 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1.41 Security Update (RHSA-2020:1449)
  • 940495 AlmaLinux Security Update for container-tools:2.0 (ALSA-2020:1931)
  • 940502 AlmaLinux Security Update for container-tools:rhel8 (ALSA-2020:1932)
  • 940510 AlmaLinux Security Update for container-tools:1.0 (ALSA-2020:1926)
  • 960768 Rocky Linux Security Update for container-tools:rhel8 (RLSA-2020:1932)
  • 960775 Rocky Linux Security Update for container-tools:2.0 (RLSA-2020:1931)
  • 960859 Rocky Linux Security Update for container-tools:1.0 (RLSA-2020:1926)
  • 982559 Go (go) Security Update for github.com/containers/buildah/imagebuildah (GHSA-fx8w-mjvm-hvpc)
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