opencontainers/runc · Security
Privilege Elevation in runc
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-q3j5-32m5-58c2
- CVE ID
- CVE-2016-3697
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
libcontainer/user/user.go in runC before 0.1.0, as used in Docker before 1.11.2, improperly treats a numeric UID as a potential username, which allows local users to gain privileges via a numeric username in the password file in a container.
CWEs
- CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3697 ↗
- https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/21436 ↗
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/708 ↗
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/69af385de62ea68e2e608335cffbb0f4aa3db091 ↗
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/releases/tag/v0.1.0 ↗
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00111.html ↗
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1034.html ↗
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2634.html ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-28 ↗
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2021-0070 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1034.html ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2634.html ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q3j5-32m5-58c2 ↗