CVE-2021-29136

Summary

CVECVE-2021-29136
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-04-06 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-05-20 14:32:00 UTC
DescriptionOpen Container Initiative umoci before 0.4.7 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary host paths via a crafted image that causes symlink traversal when "umoci unpack" or "umoci raw unpack" is used.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Linuxfoundation Umoci All All All All
Application Sylabs Singularity All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
malicious layer with symlink entry for "/" allows overwriting of host files · Advisory · opencontainers/umoci · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
oss-security - CVE-2021-29136: umoci: malicious layer with symlink entry for "/" allows overwriting of host files MISC www.openwall.com
layer: don't permit / type to be changed on extraction · opencontainers/umoci@d9efc31 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 174885 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for umoci (SUSE-SU-2021:1116-1)
  • 180111 Debian Security Update for umoci (CVE-2021-29136)
  • 501700 Alpine Linux Security Update for umoci
  • 506244 Alpine Linux Security Update for singularity
  • 750110 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for umoci (SUSE-SU-2021:1863-1)
  • 750170 OpenSUSE Security Update for umoci (openSUSE-SU-2021:0846-1)
  • 750270 OpenSUSE Security Update for umoci (openSUSE-SU-2021:0548-1)
  • 750900 OpenSUSE Security Update for umoci (openSUSE-SU-2021:1863-1)
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