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CVE-2020-10696

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-10696 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability affecting Buildah versions prior to 1.14.5, as well as several Red Hat products including Enterprise Linux and OpenShift Container Platform. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to trick a user into building a malicious container image, leading to arbitrary file writes on the user's system with their permissions. The CVSS score of 8.8 indicates a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a network attack vector and user interaction required. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.14.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:buildah_project:buildah:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0260 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 14,852 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (13)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/containers/buildahFixed in: 1.14.4
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ExtrasFixed in: buildah-0:1.11.6-11.el7_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ExtrasFixed in: podman-0:1.6.4-18.el7_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: container-tools:1.0-8020020200420104655.28c38760
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: container-tools:2.0-8020020200420175838.28c38760
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: container-tools:rhel8-8020020200420180128.28c38760
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1Fixed in: podman-0:1.0.2-4.dev.git96ccc2e.rhaos4.1.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2Fixed in: podman-0:1.4.2-6.rhaos4.2.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3Fixed in: podman-0:1.6.4-10.rhaos4.3.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11Fixed in: atomic-openshift
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-docker-builder
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11Fixed in: podman

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-fx8w-mjvm-hvpchigh

Path Traversal in Buildah

May 18, 2021
redhatCVE-2020-10696Important

buildah: Crafted input tar file may lead to local file overwrite during image build process

Mar 26, 2020

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/cve-2020-10696
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / containers/buildah/pull/2245
ExploitThird Party Advisory