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10 known vulnerabilities.

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  • Low 3.3

    runc: Malicious image with /dev symlink can trigger limited host filesystem integrity violations

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In versions prior to 1.3.6, 1.4.0-rc.1, 1.4.0-rc.12, 1.5.0-rc.1, and 1.5.0-rc.1, when setting up the container rootfs, setupPtmx and setupDevSymlinks call os.Remove and…

  • High 7.3
    CVE-2025-52881 Public exploit

    runc: LSM labels can be bypassed with malicious config using dummy procfs files

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In versions 1.2.7, 1.3.2 and 1.4.0-rc.2, an attacker can trick runc into misdirecting writes to /proc to other procfs files through the use of a racing container with s…

  • High 8.4

    container escape due to /dev/console mount and related races

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. Versions 1.0.0-rc3 through 1.2.7, 1.3.0-rc.1 through 1.3.2, and 1.4.0-rc.1 through 1.4.0-rc.2, due to insufficient checks when bind-mounting `/dev/pts/$n` to `/dev/cons…

  • High 7.3
    CVE-2025-31133 Public exploit

    runc container escape via "masked path" abuse due to mount race conditions

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In versions 1.2.7 and below, 1.3.0-rc.1 through 1.3.1, 1.4.0-rc.1 and 1.4.0-rc.2 files, runc would not perform sufficient verification that the source of the bind-mount…

  • Low 3.6

    runc can be confused to create empty files/directories on the host

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. runc 1.1.13 and earlier, as well as 1.2.0-rc2 and earlier, can be tricked into creating empty files or directories in arbitrary locations in the host filesystem by shar…

  • High 8.6
    CVE-2024-21626 Public exploit EPSS 19%

    runc container breakout through process.cwd trickery and leaked fds

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. In runc 1.1.11 and earlier, due to an internal file descriptor leak, an attacker could cause a newly-spawned container process (from runc exec) to have a worki…

  • Medium 5.0

    rootless: `/sys/fs/cgroup` is writable when cgroupns isn't unshared in runc

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In affected versions it was found that rootless runc makes `/sys/fs/cgroup` writable in following conditons: 1. when runc is executed inside the user namespace, and the…

  • Medium 6.1

    AppArmor bypass with symlinked /proc in runc

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. It was found that AppArmor can be bypassed when `/proc` inside the container is symlinked with a specific mount configuration. This issue has been fixed in runc version…

  • Medium 5.9

    Incorrect Default Permissions in runc

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. A bug was found in runc prior to version 1.1.2 where `runc exec --cap` created processes with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities, creating an aty…

  • Medium 6.0

    Overflow in netlink bytemsg length field allows attacker to override netlink-based container configuration

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. In runc, netlink is used internally as a serialization system for specifying the relevant container configuration to the `C` portion of the code (responsible f…