vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-19921: Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 12, 2020
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

runc through 1.0.0-rc9 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. (This vulnerability does not affect Docker due to an implementation detail that happens to block the attack.)

Solutions

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