🛡️ CVE-2023-25809
🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-281 NVD
5.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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 `config.json` does not specify the cgroup namespace to be unshared (e.g.., `(docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=host`, with Rootless Docker/Podman/nerdctl) or 2. when runc is executed outside the user namespace, and `/sys` is mounted with `rbind, ro` (e.g., `runc spec --rootless`; this condition is very rare). A container may gain the write access to user-owned cgroup hierarchy `/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/...` on the host . Other users's cgroup hierarchies are not affected. Users are advised to upgrade to version 1.1.5. Users unable to upgrade may unshare the cgroup namespace (`(docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=private)`. This is the default behavior of Docker/Podman/nerdctl on cgroup v2 hosts. or add `/sys/fs/cgroup` to `maskedPaths`.

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-281
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-03-30
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2026-02-04

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/opencontainers/runc
runc 1.1.5

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