CVE-2020-2026 describes a critical vulnerability in Kata Containers, affecting versions 1.11 prior to 1.11.1, 1.10 prior to 1.10.5, and all 1.9 and earlier versions. A malicious guest, such as a compromised guest image or one running multiple containers, can exploit this flaw to trick the Kata runtime into mounting an untrusted container filesystem onto any host path. This could lead to remote code execution on the host system. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 score of 8.8 (HIGH), indicating a high-impact attack with low attack complexity and requiring low privileges, resulting in high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:runtime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.10, < 1.10.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:runtime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.11, < 1.11.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:runtime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
31CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.10, < 1.10.5CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:kata_containers:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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