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SCA: security update for github.com/opencontainers/runc (GHSA-m8cg-xc2p-r3fc)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416838

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In affected
 versions it was found that rootless runc makes `/sys/fs/cgroup` writable in following conditons: 1. when
 runc is executed inside the user namespace, and the `config.json` does not specify the cgroup namespace to
 be unshared (e.g.., `(docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=host`, with Rootless Docker/Podman/nerdctl) or
 2. when runc is executed outside the user namespace, and `/sys` is mounted with `rbind, ro` (e.g., `runc
 spec --rootless`; this condition is very rare). A container may gain the write access to user-owned cgroup
 hierarchy `/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/...` on the host . Other users's cgroup hierarchies are not affected.
 Users are advised to upgrade to version 1.1.5. Users unable to upgrade may unshare the cgroup namespace
 (`(docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=private)`. This is the default behavior of Docker/Podman/nerdctl
 on cgroup v2 hosts. or add `/sys/fs/cgroup` to `maskedPaths`. (CVE-2023-25809)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m8cg-xc2p-r3fc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416838

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.1

Percentile: 49.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-25809

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/29/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-25809

cwe: CWE-281