CVE-2021-43816

Improper Preservation of Permissions in go/github.com/containerd/containerd

Identifiers

CVE-2021-43816, GHSA-mvff-h3cj-wj9c

Package Slug

go/github.com/containerd/containerd

Vulnerability

Improper Preservation of Permissions

Description

containerd is an open source container runtime. On installations using SELinux, such as EL8 (CentOS, RHEL), Fedora, or SUSE MicroOS, with containerd as the backing container runtime interface (CRI), an unprivileged pod scheduled to the node may bind mount, via hostPath volume, any privileged, regular file on disk for complete read/write access (sans delete). Such is achieved by placing the in-container location of the hostPath volume mount at either /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, or /etc/resolv.conf. These locations are being relabeled indiscriminately to match the container process-label which effectively elevates permissions for savvy containers that would not normally be able to access privileged host files. This issue has been resolved Users are advised to upgrade as soon as possible.

Affected Versions

All versions starting from 1.5.0 before 1.5.9

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.5.9 or above.

Last Modified

2022-01-20

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