vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-19921
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Feb 12, 2020 | Jan 20, 2025 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 12, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
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.)
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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