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CVE-2019-19921

Public on 2020-02-12
Modified on 2021-12-09
Description

A flaw was found in runc. An attacker who controls the container image for two containers that share a volume can race volume mounts during container initialization, by adding a symlink to the rootfs that points to a directory on the volume. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 runc 2020-04-20 18:58 ALAS-2020-1358
Amazon Linux 2 - Docker Extra runc 2021-10-19 20:41 ALAS2DOCKER-2021-009
Amazon Linux 2 - Aws-nitro-enclaves-cli Extra runc 2021-10-19 20:41 ALAS2NITRO-ENCLAVES-2021-009

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H