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CVE-2023-27561 High

CVE-2023-27561

runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom images. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2019-19921 regression.

Exploit probability 0.4%
Published March 3, 2023
Required by Not available
Last source change August 12, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Unknown Unknown

10 explicit affected versions

Go github.com/opencontainers/runc
Go github.com/opencontainers/runc

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2023-27561

runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom images. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2019-19921 regression.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities GO-2023-1627

Opencontainers runc Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in github.com/opencontainers/runc

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Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-vpvm-3wq2-2wvm

runc 1.0.0-rc95 through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to `libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go`. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom images. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2019-19921 regression.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence