CVE-2023-27561

HIGH7.0EPSS 0.15%

Opencontainers runc Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in github.com/opencontainers/runc

Published: 3/3/2023Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

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 able to run custom images. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2019-19921 regression.

Affected packages (3)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (21)