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SCA: security update for github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 (GHSA-cm76-qm8v-3j95)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434789

Description

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

 - containerd is a container runtime. A time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability was found in
 containerd v2.1.0. While unpacking an image during an image pull, specially crafted container images could
 arbitrarily modify the host file system. The only affected version of containerd is 2.1.0. Other versions
 of containerd are not affected. This bug has been fixed in containerd 2.1.1. Users should update to this
 version to resolve the issue. As a workaround, ensure that only trusted images are used and that only
 trusted users have permissions to import images. (CVE-2025-47290)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cm76-qm8v-3j95

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 434789

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.69

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-47290

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.4

Threat Score: 7.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-47290

cwe: CWE-367