High severity · published Dec 7, 2020
CVE-2020-27151
An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1
8.8
CVSS
2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.0% · higher than 81% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KC
Kata Containers · Katacontainers
through 1.11.3; 2.0.0; 2.0.0; 2.0.0; 2.0.0; 2.0.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27151
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27151
Exploit
https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0
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