CVE-2020-2023
Improper Privilege Management and Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in Kata Containers
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.8%
Description
Kata Containers doesn't restrict containers from accessing the guest's root filesystem device. Malicious containers can exploit this to gain code execution on the guest and masquerade as the kata-agent. This issue affects Kata Containers 1.11 versions earlier than 1.11.1; Kata Containers 1.10 versions earlier than 1.10.5; and Kata Containers 1.9 and earlier versions.
How to fix CVE-2020-2023
To remediate CVE-2020-2023, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.9.1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.9.1 or later
Is CVE-2020-2023 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.9.1
- from 0, < 1.9.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |