Security advisory

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  "id": "94ad7182386217722c02a81f689dfde62804766ec3ee80afdd9d5c0291f2252b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-2023",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-2023",
    "summary": "Kata Containers doesn't restrict containers from accessing the guest's root filesystem device. Malicious containers can exploit this to gain code execution on the guest and masquerade as the kata-agent. This issue affects Kata Containers 1.11 versions earlier than 1.11.1; Kata Containers 1.10 versions earlier than 1.10.5; and Kata Containers 1.9 and earlier versions.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-2023",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-2023",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-2023",
        "GHSA-6978-vg2j-cc9q"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "8ff5bdc5386a35f4779661c2f214b28b614bb276"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "ebe9677f23b574c5defacf57456d221d8ce901f2"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "ecb69a3f67ec97d071e17b95cbe3d06d270bf982"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "23e554b316aa994c6f48c9b1bd84060629fd6361"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "984ccea48a1badd2863a68f91c8d95e229898095"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:runtime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.9"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:runtime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.10"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.10.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:runtime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.11"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.11.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "ecb69a3f67ec97d071e17b95cbe3d06d270bf982"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_TAG",
                    "original_tag": "1.10.5"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "984ccea48a1badd2863a68f91c8d95e229898095"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_TAG",
                    "original_tag": "1.11.1"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.10.4",
            "1.11.0",
            "1.10.3",
            "1.10.2",
            "1.10.1",
            "1.10.0",
            "1.9.0",
            "1.9.0-rc0",
            "1.9.0-alpha2",
            "1.9.0-alpha1",
            "1.9.0-alpha0",
            "1.8.0-rc0",
            "1.8.0-alpha2",
            "1.8.0-alpha1",
            "1.8.0-alpha0",
            "1.7.0",
            "1.7.0-rc1",
            "1.7.0-alpha1",
            "1.7.0-alpha0",
            "1.6.0-rc2",
            "1.6.0-rc1",
            "1.5.0",
            "1.5.0-rc2",
            "1.4.0",
            "1.5.0-rc1",
            "1.3.0",
            "1.3.0-rc1",
            "1.3.0-rc0",
            "1.2.0",
            "1.1.0",
            "1.0.0",
            "0.3.0",
            "0.2.0",
            "0.0.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-2023.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:50:38.320039729Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/kata-containers/agent/issues/791",
        "https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.10.5",
        "https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.1",
        "https://github.com/kata-containers/agent/pull/792",
        "https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/2488",
        "https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/2477",
        "https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/2487"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-2023",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 442375,
  "published_at": "2020-06-10T18:15:11.28+00:00"
}