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CVE-2021-43816GHSA-MVFF-H3CJ-WJ9CGO-2022-0278

Improper Preservation of Permissions in containerd

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.5.9
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

containerd is an open source container runtime. On installations using SELinux, such as EL8 (CentOS, RHEL), Fedora, or SUSE MicroOS, with containerd since v1.5.0-beta.0 as the backing container runtime interface (CRI), an unprivileged pod scheduled to the node may bind mount, via hostPath volume, any privileged, regular file on disk for complete read/write access (sans delete). Such is achieved by placing the in-container location of the hostPath volume mount at either `/etc/hosts`, `/etc/hostname`, or `/etc/resolv.conf`. These locations are being relabeled indiscriminately to match the container process-label which effectively elevates permissions for savvy containers that would not normally be able to access privileged host files. This issue has been resolved in version 1.5.9. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as possible.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • containerd containerd

    From 1.5.0 · fixed in 1.5.9

  • github.com/containerd/containerdGo

    From 1.5.0 · fixed in 1.5.9

References 6

GitHub · containerd/containerd

GitHub · dweomer/containerd

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