github.com/opencontainers/runc
Go16 known CVEs affecting this package
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- CVE-2016-3697HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.8✓ Fixed in 0.1.02016-06-01
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 containe…
- CVE-2016-9962MEDIUMCVSS 6.4EG 6.4✓ Fixed in 1.0.0-rc32017-01-31
RunC allowed additional container processes via 'runc exec' to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the container, if running as root, to gain access to file-descriptors of these new processes during…
- CVE-2019-16884HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5✓ Fixed in 1.0.0-rc8.0.20190930145003-cad42f6e09322019-09-25
runc through 1.0.0-rc8, as used in Docker through 19.03.2-ce and other products, allows AppArmor restriction bypass because libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go incorrectly checks mount targets, and thus a malicious Docker image can mount over a /…
- CVE-2019-19921HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.0✓ Fixed in 1.0.0-rc9.0.20200122160610-2fc03cc11c772020-02-12
runc through 1.0.0-rc9 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations, an…
- CVE-2021-30465HIGHCVSS 8.5EG 8.5✓ Fixed in 1.0.0-rc952021-05-27
runc before 1.0.0-rc95 allows a Container Filesystem Breakout via Directory Traversal. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker must be able to create multiple containers with a fairly specific mount configuration. The problem occurs via …
- CVE-2021-43784MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.0✓ Fixed in 1.1.02021-12-06
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. In runc, netlink is used internally as a serialization system for specifying the relevant container configuration to the `C` portion of the…
- CVE-2022-29162MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.9✓ Fixed in 1.1.22022-05-17
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. A bug was found in runc prior to version 1.1.2 where `runc exec --cap` created processes with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilit…
- CVE-2023-25809MEDIUMCVSS 5.0EG 5.0✓ Fixed in 1.1.52023-03-29
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In affected versions it was found that rootless runc makes `/sys/fs/cgroup` writable in following conditons: 1. when runc is executed inside the use…
- CVE-2023-27561HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.0✓ Fixed in 1.1.52023-03-03
runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations, and be…
- CVE-2023-28642MEDIUMCVSS 6.1EG 6.1✓ Fixed in 1.1.52023-03-29
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. It was found that AppArmor can be bypassed when `/proc` inside the container is symlinked with a specific mount configuration. This issue has been f…
- CVE-2024-21626HIGHCVSS 8.6EG 8.6✓ Fixed in 1.1.122024-01-31
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. In runc 1.1.11 and earlier, due to an internal file descriptor leak, an attacker could cause a newly-spawned container process (from runc e…
- CVE-2024-45310LOWCVSS 3.6EG 3.6✓ Fixed in 1.2.0-rc.32024-09-03
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. runc 1.1.13 and earlier, as well as 1.2.0-rc2 and earlier, can be tricked into creating empty files or directories in arbitrary locations in the hos…
- CVE-2025-27612MEDIUMCVSS 5.9EG 5.92025-03-21
libcontainer is a library for container control. Prior to libcontainer 0.5.3, while creating a tenant container, the tenant builder accepts a list of capabilities to be added in the spec of tenant container. The logic here adds the given c…
- CVE-2025-31133HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.8✓ Fixed in 1.2.82025-11-06
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In versions 1.2.7 and below, 1.3.0-rc.1 through 1.3.1, 1.4.0-rc.1 and 1.4.0-rc.2 files, runc would not perform sufficient verification that the sour…
- CVE-2025-52565HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5✓ Fixed in 1.2.82025-11-06
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. Versions 1.0.0-rc3 through 1.2.7, 1.3.0-rc.1 through 1.3.2, and 1.4.0-rc.1 through 1.4.0-rc.2, due to insufficient checks when bind-mounting `/dev/p…
- CVE-2025-52881HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5✓ Fixed in 1.2.82025-11-06
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In versions 1.2.7, 1.3.2 and 1.4.0-rc.2, an attacker can trick runc into misdirecting writes to /proc to other procfs files through the use of a rac…
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