CVE-2020-1726Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties in Containers Libpod V2

Severity
5.9MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 62.77%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedFeb 11
Latest updateAug 20

Description

A flaw was discovered in Podman where it incorrectly allows containers when created to overwrite existing files in volumes, even if they are mounted as read-only. When a user runs a malicious container or a container based on a malicious image with an attached volume that is used for the first time, it is possible to trigger the flaw and overwrite files in the volume.This issue was introduced in version 1.6.0.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages7 packages

Also affects: Openshift Container Platform 4.3, Enterprise Linux 8.0

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
OSV
Podman has Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties in github.com/containers/libpod2024-08-20
GHSA
Podman has Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties2022-05-24
OSV
Podman has Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties2022-05-24
CVEList
CVE-2020-1726: A flaw was discovered in Podman where it incorrectly allows containers when created to overwrite existing files in volumes, even if they are mounted a2020-02-11
OSV
CVE-2020-1726: A flaw was discovered in Podman where it incorrectly allows containers when created to overwrite existing files in volumes, even if they are mounted a2020-02-11

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
podman: incorrectly allows existing files in volumes to be overwritten by a container when it is created2020-02-11
Debian
CVE-2020-1726: libpod - A flaw was discovered in Podman where it incorrectly allows containers when crea...2020

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-27761 ImageMagick: outside the range of representable values of type 'unsigned long' at coders/palm.c2020-11-04
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-1726 podman: incorrectly allows existing files in volumes to be overwritten by a container when it is created2020-02-10
CVE-2020-1726 — Containers Libpod V2 vulnerability | cvebase