CVE-2025-27612

Libcontainer is affected by capabilities elevation

Published: Mar 21, 2025Updated: Mar 21, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-276

5.9MEDIUM

Description

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 capabilities to all capabilities of main container if present in spec, otherwise simply set provided capabilities as capabilities of the tenant container. However, setting inherited caps in any case for tenant container can lead to elevation of capabilities, similar to CVE-2022-29162. This does not affect youki binary itself. This is only applicable if you are using libcontainer directly and using the tenant builder.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:LAttack Vector

Local

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:NPrivileges Required

None

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:LConfidentiality

Low

I:LIntegrity

Low

A:LAvailability

Low

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Weaknesses

CWE-276

Affected Products

youki-dev

commercialaka youki

youkiMixed

Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core

crates.io

package-ecosystem

libcontainer

OSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

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References

https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/security/advisories/GHSA-5w4j-f78p-4wh9

github.com

https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-f3fp-gc8g-vw66

github.com

https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/commit/747e342d2026fbf3a395db3e2a491ebef00082f1

github.com

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