CVE-2020-27151

Published December 7th, 2020

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CVSS v3

8.8

HIGH

CVSS v2

HIGH

Affected

PROJECTS

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.

kata-containers/runtime

Kata Containers version 1.x runtime (for version 2.x see https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers).

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kata-containers/kata-containers

Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/

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