7.3
/ 10
HIGH
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
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.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2025-52881
Source
GitHub_M
Published
Nov 6, 2025 at 20:23
Affected Product
Vendor
opencontainers
Product
runc
Version
<= 1.2.7, < 1.2.8
Affected Versions
opencontainers runc <= 1.2.7, < 1.2.8
opencontainers runc <= 1.3.2, < 1.3.3
opencontainers runc <= 1.4.0-rc.2, < 1.4.0-rc.3
opencontainers runc <= 1.3.2, < 1.3.3
opencontainers runc <= 1.4.0-rc.2, < 1.4.0-rc.3
CWE Classification
References
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-cgrx-mc8f-2prm
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-qw9x-cqr3-wc7r
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-9493-h29p-rfm2
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/ff94f9991bd32076c871ef0ad8bc1b763458e480
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/ff6fe1324663538167eca8b3d3eec61e1bd4fa51
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/ed6b1693b8b3ae7eb0250a7e76fc888cdacf98c1
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/db19bbed5348847da433faa9d69e9f90192bfa64
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/d61fd29d854b416feaaf128bf650325cd2182165
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/d40b3439a9614a86e87b81a94c6811ec6fa2d7d2
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/b3dd1bc562ed9996d1a0f249e056c16624046d28
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/77d217c7c3775d8ca5af89e477e81568ef4572db
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/77889b56db939c323d29d1130f28f9aea2edb544
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/6fc191449109ea14bb7d61238f24a33fe08c651f
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/4b37cd93f86e72feac866442988b549b5b7bf3e6
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/44a0fcf685db051c80b8c269812bb177f5802c58
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/435cc81be6b79cdec73b4002c0dae549b2f6ae6d
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/3f925525b44d247e390e529e772a0dc0c0bc3557
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/blob/v1.4.0-rc.2/RELEASES.md
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/a41366e74080fa9f26a2cd3544e2801449697322
- github.com /opencontainers/runc/commit/fdcc9d3cad2f85954a241ccb910a61aaa1ef47f3