Kata Containers up to 1.9/1.10.4/1.11.0 unnecessary privileges

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Kata Containers up to 1.9/1.10.4/1.11.0. This affects an unknown function. This manipulation causes unnecessary privileges. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2020-2023. The attack needs to be launched locally. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Kata Containers up to 1.9/1.10.4/1.11.0 (Virtualization Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unnecessary privileges vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-250. The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Kata Containers doesn't restrict containers from accessing the guest's root filesystem device. Malicious containers can exploit this to gain code execution on the guest and masquerade as the kata-agent. This issue affects Kata Containers 1.11 versions earlier than 1.11.1; Kata Containers 1.10 versions earlier than 1.10.5; and Kata Containers 1.9 and earlier versions.

The weakness was published 06/10/2020. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-2023 since 12/04/2019. An attack has to be approached locally. Required for exploitation is a single authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 1.10.5 or 1.11.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Virtualization Software

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• Kata Containers

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.10.0
• 1.10.1
• 1.10.2
• 1.10.3
• 1.10.4
• 1.11.0

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