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CVE-2023-28642

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Last updated

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28642

Severity

6.1

Medium

CVSS V3

Summary

AppArmor bypass with symlinked /proc in runc

Description

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 1.1.5, by prohibiting symlinked /proc. See PR #3785 for details. users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should avoid using an untrusted container image.

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