CVE-2025-52881

Updated: 2025-12-14 04:16:35.271785

Description:

runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In versions 1.2.7, 1.3.2 and 1.4.0-rc.2, an attacker can trick runc into misdirecting writes to /proc to other procfs files through the use of a racing container with shared mounts (we have also verified this attack is possible to exploit using a standard Dockerfile with docker buildx build as that also permits triggering parallel execution of containers with custom shared mounts configured). This redirect could be through symbolic links in a tmpfs or theoretically other methods such as regular bind-mounts. While similar, the mitigation applied for the related CVE, CVE-2019-19921, was fairly limited and effectively only caused runc to verify that when LSM labels are written they are actually procfs files. This issue is fixed in versions 1.2.8, 1.3.3, and 1.4.0-rc.3.


Links NIST CIRCL RHEL Ubuntu

Severity

Severity Score
CVSS Version 2.x 0.0
CVSS Version 3.x HIGH 7.5

Status

OS name Project name Version Score Severity Status Errata Last updated

Statement

AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU buildah 1.29.1 7.5 HIGH Released CLSA-2025:1764692266 2025-12-02 17:35:40
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU podman 4.4.1 7.5 HIGH In Testing 2025-11-28 16:26:43
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU runc 1.1.4 7.5 HIGH Released CLSA-2025:1763648873 2025-11-20 20:52:14
TuxCare 9.6 ESU runc 1.2.5 7.5 HIGH In Testing 2025-12-11 15:26:09
TuxCare 9.6 ESU podman 5.4.0 7.5 HIGH Needs Triage 2025-12-09 18:59:07
TuxCare 9.6 ESU buildah 1.39.4 7.5 HIGH In Testing 2025-12-11 20:55:14