CVE-2020-27151

An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0Third Party Advisory

Published

Dec 7, 2020

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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