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CVE-2020-2024 (GCVE-0-2020-2024)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-19 21:05 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:01
VLAI
Title
Kata Containers - Guests can trick the kata-runtime into unmounting any mount point on the host
Summary
An improper link resolution vulnerability affects Kata Containers versions prior to 1.11.0. Upon container teardown, a malicious guest can trick the kata-runtime into unmounting any mount point on the host and all mount points underneath it, potentiality resulting in a host DoS.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Kata Containers Kata Containers Affected: unspecified , < 1.11.0 (custom)
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Date Public
2020-05-19 00:00
Credits
Yuval Avrahami, Palo Alto Networks
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