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CVE-2020-2025

Kata Containers - Cloud Hypervisor guests persist filesystem changes to the underlying host image file

Published: May 19, 2020Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-284
8.8HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 76.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

Kata Containers before 1.11.0 on Cloud Hypervisor persists guest filesystem changes to the underlying image file on the host. A malicious guest can overwrite the image file to gain control of all subsequent guest VMs. Since Kata Containers uses the same VM image file with all VMMs, this issue may also affect QEMU and Firecracker based guests.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:LPR:LUI:NS:CC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-284CWE-281

Affected Products

katacontainers
oss-projectaka kata containers, kata-containers
runtimeOn-prem
Cloud & SaaS / container-orchestration
Kata Containers
oss-project
Kata ContainersOn-prem
Cloud & SaaS / container-orchestration

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Privilege Escalation
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References

https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/2487
github.com

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