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SCA: security update for github.com/kata-containers/agent, github.com/kata-containers/runtime (GHSA-6978-vg2j-cc9q)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411330

Description

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

 - Kata Containers doesn't restrict containers from accessing the guest's root filesystem device. Malicious
 containers can exploit this to gain code execution on the guest and masquerade as the kata-agent. This
 issue affects Kata Containers 1.11 versions earlier than 1.11.1; Kata Containers 1.10 versions earlier
 than 1.10.5; and Kata Containers 1.9 and earlier versions. (CVE-2020-2023)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6978-vg2j-cc9q

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 411330

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: 49.34

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-2023

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/10/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-2023