Improper Privilege Management in Apptainer - CVE-2023-38496

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Improper Privilege Management in Apptainer - CVE-2023-38496

Published: August 21, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU79801
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-38496
CWE-ID: CWE-269
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to application contains an ineffective privilege drop when requesting container network setup. A local user can delete any directory on the host filesystems.


Affected software

Apptainer
Fedora
apptainer

How to mitigate CVE-2023-38496

Install updates from vendor's website.

Apptainer - update to 1.2.1
apptainer - addressed in versions 1.2.1-1.el7, 1.2.1-1.el8, 1.2.1-1.el9, 1.2.2-1.el7, 1.2.2-1.el8, 1.2.2-1.el9

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