Paper/Archive/CVE-2021-43816

CVE-2021-43816

containerd containerd — Improper Preservation of Permissions in containerd

Description · from the CVE record

containerd is an open source container runtime. On installations using SELinux, such as EL8 (CentOS, RHEL), Fedora, or SUSE MicroOS, with containerd since v1.5.0-beta.0 as the backing container runtime interface (CRI), an unprivileged pod scheduled to the node may bind mount, via hostPath volume, any privileged, regular file on disk for complete read/write access (sans delete). Such is achieved by placing the in-container location of the hostPath volume mount at either `/etc/hosts`, `/etc/hostname`, or `/etc/resolv.conf`. These locations are being relabeled indiscriminately to match the container process-label which effectively elevates permissions for savvy containers that would not normally be able to access privileged host files. This issue has been resolved in version 1.5.9. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as possible.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
containerd>= 1.5.0, < 1.5.9–CNA

Scores by source

NVD9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub_M (CNA)8.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/containerd/containerd/security/advisories/GHSA-mvff-h3cj-wj9crefgithub.com/containerd/containerd/issues/6194refgithub.com/containerd/containerd/commit/a731039238c62be081eb8c31525b988415745eearefgithub.com/dweomer/containerd/commit/f7f08f0e34fb97392b0d382e58916d6865100299advisorylists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GD5GH7NMK5VJMA2Y5CYB5O5GTPYMWMLXadvisorylists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MPDIZMI7ZPERSZE2XO265UCK5IWM7CID