CVE-2025-54867
Youki: If /proc and /sys in the rootfs are symbolic links, they can potentially be exploited to gain access to the host root filesystem.
Description
### Summary If `/proc` and `/sys` in the rootfs are symbolic links, they can potentially be exploited to gain access to the host root filesystem. ### Details For security reasons, container creation should be prohibited if `/proc` or `/sys` in the rootfs is a symbolic link. I verified this behavior with `youki`. When `/proc` or `/sys` is a symbolic link, `runc` fails to create the container, whereas `youki` successfully creates it. This is the fix related to this issue in `runc`. * https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/3756 * https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/3773 * https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/blob/main/libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go#L590 * https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/blob/main/tests/integration/mask.bats#L60 ### Impact The following advisory appears to be related to this vulnerability: * https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vpvm-3wq2-2wvm * https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fh74-hm69-rqjw
How to fix CVE-2025-54867
To remediate CVE-2025-54867, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 0.5.5 or later
Is CVE-2025-54867 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 0.5.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |