CVE-2021-20188

HIGH

podman < 1.7.0 - Incorrect Authorization via Privileged Container File Permissions

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in podman before 1.7.0. File permissions for non-root users running in a privileged container are not correctly checked. This flaw can be abused by a low-privileged user inside the container to access any other file in the container, even if owned by the root user inside the container. It does not allow to directly escape the container, though being a privileged container means that a lot of security features are disabled when running the container. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1915734

Scores

CVSS v3 7.0
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 24.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-863
Status published
Products (5)
containers/libpod 0 - 1.7.0Go
podman_project/podman < 1.7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat/openshift_container_platform 3.11
Published Feb 11, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026