containers crun up to 1.19 path traversal

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in containers crun up to 1.19. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-24965. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in containers crun up to 1.19. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

crun is an open source OCI Container Runtime fully written in C. In affected versions A malicious container image could trick the krun handler into escaping the root filesystem, allowing file creation or modification on the host. No special permissions are needed, only the ability for the current user to write to the target file. The problem is fixed in crun 1.20 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-24965 since 01/29/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 216855 (openSUSE 15 Security Update : crun (openSUSE-SU-2025:0074-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.20 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (216855). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Type

• Virtualization Software

Vendor

• containers

Name

• crun

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19

Website

• Product: https://github.com/containers/crun/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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