CVE-2020-27151

An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
8.8 HIGH
NETWORK
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
mitreCNA
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CVEADP
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 73%
VendorProductVersion
katacontainerskata_containers
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≤ 1.11.3
katacontainerskata_containers
2.0.0:alpha1
katacontainerskata_containers
2.0.0:alpha2
katacontainerskata_containers
2.0.0:alpha3
katacontainerskata_containers
2.0.0:rc0
katacontainerskata_containers
2.0.0:rc1
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= Vulnerable software versions
References
https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234
https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0
https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5
https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0
https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234
https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0
https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5
https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0