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CVE-2025-52565NVD
Vulnerability Summary
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. Versions 1.0.0-rc3 through 1.2.7, 1.3.0-rc.1 through 1.3.2, and 1.4.0-rc.1 through 1.4.0-rc.2, due to insufficient checks when bind-mounting `/dev/pts/$n` to `/dev/console` inside the container, an attacker can trick runc into bind-mounting paths which would normally be made read-only or be masked onto a path that the attacker can write to. This attack is very similar in concept and application to CVE-2025-31133, except that it attacks a similar vulnerability in a different target (namely, the bind-mount of `/dev/pts/$n` to `/dev/console` as configured for all containers that allocate a console). This happens after `pivot_root(2)`, so this cannot be used to write to host files directly -- however, as with CVE-2025-31133, this can load to denial of service of the host or a container breakout by providing the attacker with a writable copy of `/proc/sysrq-trigger` or `/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern` (respectively). This issue is fixed in versions 1.2.8, 1.3.3 and 1.4.0-rc.3.
CVSS v4.0 Base Metrics — Score 8.4 (HIGH)
Attack VectorLocal
Attack ComplexityLow
Attack RequirementsNone
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionPassive
Confidentiality (Vulnerable System)None
Integrity (Vulnerable System)High
Availability (Vulnerable System)None
Confidentiality (Subsequent System)High
Integrity (Subsequent System)High
Availability (Subsequent System)High
Affected & Patched Versions
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External References
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/01de9d65dc72f67b256ef03f9bfb795a2bf143b4
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/398955bccb7f20565c224a3064d331c19e422398
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/531ef794e4ecd628006a865ad334a048ee2b4b2e
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/9be1dbf4ac67d9840a043ebd2df5c68f36705d1d
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/aee7d3fe355dd02939d44155e308ea0052e0d53a
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/db19bbed5348847da433faa9d69e9f90192bfa64
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/de87203e625cd7a27141fb5f2ad00a320c69c5e8
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/ff94f9991bd32076c871ef0ad8bc1b763458e480
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-qw9x-cqr3-wc7r