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SCA: security update for github.com/opencontainers/runc (GHSA-gp4j-w3vj-7299)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 415218

Description

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

 - RunC allowed additional container processes via 'runc exec' to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container.
 This allows the main processes of the container, if running as root, to gain access to file-descriptors of
 these new processes during the initialization and can lead to container escapes or modification of runC
 state before the process is fully placed inside the container. (CVE-2016-9962)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gp4j-w3vj-7299

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 415218

Version: Revision 1.6

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.82

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9962

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/20/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9962

BID: 95361

cwe: CWE-200