Security advisory

{
  "id": "d729f9d265820ab3314b8d4d1d08734f08832c3d5911c2f348738322dacd7af4",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-27561",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2023-27561",
    "summary": "runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom images. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2019-19921 regression.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-27561",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2023-27561",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2023-27561",
        "GHSA-vpvm-3wq2-2wvm",
        "GO-2023-1627"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/opencontainers/runc",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "f19387a6bec4944c770f7668ab51c4348d9c2f38"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.1.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "DESCRIPTION"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:runc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.1.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v1.1.0",
            "v1.0.0-rc2",
            "v0.0.8",
            "v0.0.7",
            "v0.0.6",
            "v0.0.5",
            "v0.0.4",
            "v0.0.2",
            "v0.0.3",
            "v0.0.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-27561.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:51.294472670Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gist.github.com/LiveOverflow/c937820b688922eb127fb760ce06dab9",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/27xxx/CVE-2023-27561.json",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANUGDBJ7NBUMSUFZUSKU3ZMQYZ2Z3STN/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DHGVGGMKGZSJ7YO67TGGPFEHBYMS63VF/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNB2UEDIIJCRQW4WJLZOPQJZXCVSXMLD/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FYVE3GB4OG3BNT5DLQHYO4M5SXX33AQ5/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I6BF24VCZRFTYBTT3T7HDZUOTKOTNPLZ/",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-27561",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241206-0004/",
        "https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/2197#issuecomment-1437617334",
        "https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/3751",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00023.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/27xxx/CVE-2023-27561.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-27561",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 519759,
  "published_at": "2023-03-03T00:00:00+00:00"
}