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CVE-2025-27612GO-2025-3543GHSA-5W4J-F78P-4WH9

Libcontainer is affected by capabilities elevation

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.5.3
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

libcontainer is a library for container control. Prior to libcontainer 0.5.3, while creating a tenant container, the tenant builder accepts a list of capabilities to be added in the spec of tenant container. The logic here adds the given capabilities to all capabilities of main container if present in spec, otherwise simply set provided capabilities as capabilities of the tenant container. However, setting inherited caps in any case for tenant container can lead to elevation of capabilities, similar to CVE-2022-29162. This does not affect youki binary itself. This is only applicable if you are using libcontainer directly and using the tenant builder.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • youki-dev youki

    fixed in 0.5.3

  • libcontainercrates.io

    fixed in 0.5.3

References 4

GitHub · youki-dev/youki

GitHub · opencontainers/runc