CVE-2020-2025 HIGH

CVE-2020-2025: Kata Containers - Cloud Hypervisor guests persist filesystem changes to the underlying host image file

Vendor Kata Containers
Product Kata Containers
Weakness CWE-284
Published May 19, 2020
Last update September 16, 2024
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CVSS base score

8.8/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Kata Containers before 1.11.0 on Cloud Hypervisor persists guest filesystem changes to the underlying image file on the host. A malicious guest can overwrite the image file to gain control of all subsequent guest VMs. Since Kata Containers uses the same VM image file with all VMMs, this issue may also affect QEMU and Firecracker based guests.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 19, 2020 CVE published
September 16, 2024 Record updated