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Major Container Security Flaw Threatens Cascading Attacks

runc, a building-block project for the container technologies used by many enterprises as well as public cloud providers, has patched a vulnerability that would allow root-level code-execution, container escape and access to the host filesystem.

Discovered by researchers Adam Iwaniuk and Borys Popławski, the vulnerability (CVE-2019-5736) “allows a malicious container to (with minimal user interaction) overwrite the host runc binary and thus gain root-level code execution on the host,” according a posting on Monday.

An attacker with local access to the affected system can exploit the flaw by convincing users to run malicious or modified containers on their systems.

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