CVE-2023-38496

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
apptainerapptainer>= 1.2.0-rc.2, < 1.2.1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-271: CWE-271: Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors
  • CWE-269: CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References