Apptainer is an open source container platform. Version 1.2.0-rc.2 introduced an ineffective privilege drop when requesting container network setup, therefore subsequent functions are called with root privileges, the attack surface is rather limited for users but an attacker could possibly craft a starter config to delete any directory on the host filesystems. A security fix has been included in Apptainer 1.2.1. There is no known workaround outside of upgrading to Apptainer 1.2.1.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/pull/1523 | Patch |
https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/pull/1578 | Patch |
https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/security/advisories/GHSA-mmx5-32m4-wxvx | Patch Vendor Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2023-07-25T21:02:12.018Z
Updated: 2023-07-25T21:02:12.018Z
Reserved: 2023-07-18T16:28:12.076Z
Link: CVE-2023-38496
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2023-07-25T22:15:10.503
Modified: 2023-08-02T19:32:49.440
Link: CVE-2023-38496
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