Vulnerability · Published Dec 7, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-27151

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.0% (higher than 81% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)8.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)2.0%top 18.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0 x_refsource_MISC