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Bottlerocket: kubernetes-1.27: security update to 1.27.16

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428081

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 on Linux according to the OCI specification. In
 runc 1.1.11 and earlier, due to an internal file descriptor leak, an attacker could cause a newly-spawned
 container process (from runc exec) to have a working directory in the host filesystem namespace, allowing
 for a container escape by giving access to the host filesystem ("attack 2"). The same attack could be used
 by a malicious image to allow a container process to gain access to the host filesystem through runc run
 ("attack 1"). Variants of attacks 1 and 2 could be also be used to overwrite semi-arbitrary host binaries,
 allowing for complete container escapes ("attack 3a" and "attack 3b"). runc 1.1.12 includes patches for
 this issue. (CVE-2024-21626)

Solution

Update the kubernetes-1.27 library and its related packages to version 1.27.16 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 428081

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Published: 6/30/2025

Updated: 10/19/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8

Percentile: 99.69

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-21626

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Exploitable With

Metasploit (runc (docker) File Descriptor Leak Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-21626