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)
2. or, 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.
v1.1.5 (planned)
(docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=private). This is the default behavior of Docker/Podman/nerdctl on cgroup v2 hosts./sys/fs/cgroup to maskedPaths{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-281"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2023-03-30T20:17:24Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2023-03-29T19:15:00Z",
"severity": "LOW"
}