CVE-2020-27151

moderate-risk
Published 2020-12-07

An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.

Do I need to act?

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0.56% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 8.8/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (6)

Kata Containers
Kata Containers
Kata Containers
Kata Containers
Kata Containers
Kata Containers

Affected Vendors

Katacontainers

References (8)

Exploit https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0
Exploit https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0
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moderate-risk
Severity 30/34 · Critical
Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal
Exposure 13/34 · Low