CVE-2023-27561
HIGHrunc < 1.1.5 - Privilege Escalation via Custom Volume-Mount Configurations
Title source: llmDescription
runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom images. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2019-19921 regression.
References (10)
Core 10
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://gist.github.com/LiveOverflow/c937820b688922eb127fb760ce06dab9
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/2197#issuecomment-1437617334
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/3751
Vendor Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241206-0004/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00023.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DHGVGGMKGZSJ7YO67TGGPFEHBYMS63VF/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FYVE3GB4OG3BNT5DLQHYO4M5SXX33AQ5/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I6BF24VCZRFTYBTT3T7HDZUOTKOTNPLZ/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANUGDBJ7NBUMSUFZUSKU3ZMQYZ2Z3STN/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNB2UEDIIJCRQW4WJLZOPQJZXCVSXMLD/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.0
EPSS
0.0045
EPSS Percentile
35.4%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-706
Status
published
Products (6)
debian/debian_linux
10.0
linuxfoundation/runc
< 1.1.5
opencontainers/runc
1.0.0-rc95 - 1.1.5Go
redhat/enterprise_linux
8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux
9.0
redhat/openshift_container_platform
4.0
Published
Mar 03, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026