CVE-2020-27151

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27151

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27151.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-27151

Published

2020-12-07T14:15:11.280Z

Modified

2026-07-08T18:17:38.671817Z

Severity

8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers

Events

Introduced

Last affected

5ff5c7d6c3aa47583dd3711cff5f0873ebc656e7

Introduced

43db1284e9d4e70f943aaaa1b1a477277c9081d6

Last affected

9b969bb7da4b37c25ad3a2512e74bb02129381f1

Fixed

aa295c91f2ec5ec3389992111a1c6acecb46024b

Database specific

{
    "cpe": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:kata_containers:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:kata_containers:2.0.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:kata_containers:2.0.0:alpha2:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:kata_containers:2.0.0:alpha3:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:kata_containers:2.0.0:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:kata_containers:2.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "CPE_STRING",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.11.3"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.0-alpha1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.0-alpha1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.0-alpha2"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.0-alpha2"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.0-alpha3"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.0-alpha3"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.0-rc0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.0-rc0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.0-rc1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.0-rc1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*

1.10.0-rc0

1.11.0

1.11.0-alpha0

1.11.0-alpha1

1.11.0-rc0

1.11.1

1.11.2

1.11.3

1.9.3

2.*

2.0.0-alpha1

2.0.0-alpha2

2.0.0-alpha3

2.0.0-rc0

2.0.0-rc1

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27151.json"

Git / github.com/kata-containers/runtime

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime

Events

Introduced

Fixed

28598666af4ca4855cc81a9bf829efb9e739b962

Fixed

439d131e706e18018094bca48ae20adfa5d0fb7a

Database specific

{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Affected versions

0.*

0.0.1

0.2.0

0.3.0

1.*

1.0.0

1.1.0

1.10.0-alpha0

1.10.0-alpha1

1.10.0-rc0

1.11.0

1.11.0-alpha0

1.11.0-alpha1

1.11.0-rc0

1.11.1

1.11.2

1.11.3

1.11.4

1.12.0-alpha0

1.12.0-alpha1

1.12.0-rc0

1.2.0

1.3.0

1.3.0-rc0

1.3.0-rc1

1.4.0

1.5.0

1.5.0-rc1

1.5.0-rc2

1.6.0-rc1

1.6.0-rc2

1.7.0

1.7.0-alpha0

1.7.0-alpha1

1.7.0-rc1

1.8.0-alpha0

1.8.0-alpha1

1.8.0-alpha2

1.8.0-rc0

1.9.0-alpha0

1.9.0-alpha1

1.9.0-alpha2

1.9.0-rc0

Other

20191207

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27151.json"