CVE-2020-2023

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-2023
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-10 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-10-19 12:45:00 UTC
DescriptionKata 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Katacontainers Runtime All All All All
Application Katacontainers Runtime All All All All
Application Katacontainers Runtime All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
clh: update CLH to stable/v0.5.x by likebreath · Pull Request #2487 · kata-containers/runtime · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
clh: update CLH to stable/v0.5.x · Issue #2488 · kata-containers/runtime · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Explicitly deny any access to the nvdimm root partition · Issue #791 · kata-containers/agent · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
Release # Release 1.10.5 · kata-containers/runtime · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
device: Do not allow container access to the nvdimm rootfs by amshinde · Pull Request #792 · kata-containers/agent · GitHub MISC github.com Patch
qemu: pass rootfs image in readonly mode by bergwolf · Pull Request #2477 · kata-containers/runtime · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Release # Release 1.11.1 · kata-containers/runtime · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
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Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Yuval Avrahami, Palo Alto Networks

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