CVE-2023-38496

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-38496
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-07-25 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-02 19:32:00 UTC
DescriptionApptainer is an open source container platform. Version 1.2.0-rc.2 introduced an ineffective privilege drop when requesting container network setup, therefore subsequent functions are called with root privileges, the attack surface is rather limited for users but an attacker could possibly craft a starter config to delete any directory on the host filesystems. A security fix has been included in Apptainer 1.2.1. There is no known workaround outside of upgrading to Apptainer 1.2.1.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Lfprojects Apptainer 1.2.0 - All All
Application Lfprojects Apptainer 1.2.0 rc2 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Set real UID to zero when escalating privileges for CNI plugins to fix issue appeared with RHEL 9.X (release 1.2) by cclerget · Pull Request #1523 · apptainer/apptainer · GitHub MISC github.com
Restore old syscall setresuid behavior when escalating/dropping privileges. by cclerget · Pull Request #1578 · apptainer/apptainer · GitHub MISC github.com
Ineffective privileges drop when requesting container network · Advisory · apptainer/apptainer · GitHub MISC github.com
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