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CVE-2020-15257

Public on 2020-11-20
Modified on 2021-12-09
Description

A flaw was found in containerd. Access controls for the shim API socket verified that a connecting process had an effective UID of 0, but otherwise did not restrict access to the abstract Unix domain socket. This could allow malicious containers running in the same network namespace as the shim, with an effective UID of 0 but otherwise reduced privileges, to cause new processes to be run with elevated privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.2
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 containerd 2020-11-20 17:29 ALAS-2020-1455
Amazon Linux 2 - Docker Extra containerd 2021-10-19 20:49 ALAS2DOCKER-2021-012
Amazon Linux 2 - Ecs Extra containerd 2023-11-09 20:27 ALAS2ECS-2023-030
Amazon Linux 2 - Aws-nitro-enclaves-cli Extra containerd 2021-10-19 20:48 ALAS2NITRO-ENCLAVES-2021-012

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 3.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 3.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N