CVE-2021-41103

HIGH

containerd < 1.4.11 - Unauthenticated Path Traversal and Privilege Escalation via Insufficient Directory Permissions

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

containerd is an open source container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability. A bug was found in containerd where container root directories and some plugins had insufficiently restricted permissions, allowing otherwise unprivileged Linux users to traverse directory contents and execute programs. When containers included executable programs with extended permission bits (such as setuid), unprivileged Linux users could discover and execute those programs. When the UID of an unprivileged Linux user on the host collided with the file owner or group inside a container, the unprivileged Linux user on the host could discover, read, and modify those files. This vulnerability has been fixed in containerd 1.4.11 and containerd 1.5.7. Users should update to these version when they are released and may restart containers or update directory permissions to mitigate the vulnerability. Users unable to update should limit access to the host to trusted users. Update directory permission on container bundles directories.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0025
EPSS Percentile 48.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (5)
containerd/containerd 0 - 1.4.11Go
debian/debian_linux 11.0
fedoraproject/fedora 34
fedoraproject/fedora 35
linuxfoundation/containerd < 1.4.11
Published Oct 04, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026