CVE-2021-21334

MEDIUM

Linuxfoundation Containerd < 1.3.10 - Exposure to Wrong Actor

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

In containerd (an industry-standard container runtime) before versions 1.3.10 and 1.4.4, containers launched through containerd's CRI implementation (through Kubernetes, crictl, or any other pod/container client that uses the containerd CRI service) that share the same image may receive incorrect environment variables, including values that are defined for other containers. If the affected containers have different security contexts, this may allow sensitive information to be unintentionally shared. If you are not using containerd's CRI implementation (through one of the mechanisms described above), you are not vulnerable to this issue. If you are not launching multiple containers or Kubernetes pods from the same image which have different environment variables, you are not vulnerable to this issue. If you are not launching multiple containers or Kubernetes pods from the same image in rapid succession, you have reduced likelihood of being vulnerable to this issue This vulnerability has been fixed in containerd 1.3.10 and containerd 1.4.4. Users should update to these versions.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases/tag/v1.4.4
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases/tag/v1.3.10
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-33

Scores

CVSS v3 6.3
EPSS 0.0047
EPSS Percentile 64.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-668
Status published
Products (4)
containerd/containerd 1.4.0 - 1.4.4Go
fedoraproject/fedora 33
fedoraproject/fedora 34
linuxfoundation/containerd < 1.3.10
Published Mar 10, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026