Security advisory

{
  "id": "9d90ecb8644b53a6da02fb7a1b2f7a53a62e74c338cb59da2cc7d74e57540081",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-24263",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-24263",
    "summary": "Portainer 1.24.1 and earlier is affected by an insecure permissions vulnerability that may lead to remote arbitrary code execution. A non-admin user is allowed to spawn new containers with critical capabilities such as SYS_MODULE, which can be used to take over the Docker host.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-24263",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-24263",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-24263"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/portainer/portainer",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "f347d97dafa2563d04cec02e33db173cc1eee392"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:portainer:portainer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.24.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.24.1",
            "1.24.0",
            "1.23.2",
            "1.23.1",
            "1.23.0",
            "1.22.1",
            "1.22.0",
            "1.21.0",
            "1.20.2",
            "1.20.1",
            "1.20.0",
            "1.11.3",
            "internal-1.6.0",
            "internal-1.5.0",
            "internal-1.4.0",
            "internal-1.3.0",
            "internal-1.2.0",
            "v0.6.0",
            "v0.5"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-24263.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:52:50.523059340Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/4105"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-24263",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 383932,
  "published_at": "2021-03-16T15:15:12.53+00:00"
}