Buildah
CVE-2020-10696
HIGH
Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Lifecycle Timeline
1DescriptionNVD
A path traversal flaw was found in Buildah in versions before 1.14.5. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into building a malicious container image hosted on an HTTP(s) server and then write files to the user's system anywhere that the user has permissions.
AnalysisAI
A path traversal flaw was found in Buildah in versions before 1.14.5. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
Technical ContextAI
This vulnerability is classified as Path Traversal (CWE-22), which allows attackers to access files and directories outside the intended path. A path traversal flaw was found in Buildah in versions before 1.14.5. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into building a malicious container image hosted on an HTTP(s) server and then write files to the user's system anywhere that the user has permissions. Affected products include: Buildah Project Buildah, Redhat Openshift Container Platform, Redhat Enterprise Linux. Version information: before 1.14.5..
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Validate and canonicalize file paths. Use chroot or sandboxing. Reject input containing path separators or '../' sequences.
An incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Buildah container engine might lead to the sensitive informatio
A flaw was found in buildah where containers were incorrectly started with non-empty default permissions. Rated medium s
The containers/image library used by the container tools Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo in Red Hat Enterprise Linux version
Alpine Linux: buildah fixed in 1.37.5-r0
Same weakness CWE-22 – Path Traversal
View allSame technique Path Traversal
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External POC / Exploit Code
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