CVE-2023-25809
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-03-29 18:22
Modified
2024-08-02 11:32
Summary
rootless: `/sys/fs/cgroup` is writable when cgroupns isn't unshared in runc
Impacted products
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