Race condition in runc - CVE-2024-45310

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to crate empty files and directories on the host.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition when handling containers with custom configuration. A remote attacker can trick the victim into running a specially crafted Docker or Kubernetes container, which can be used to share a volume between two containers and then exploit a race with os.MkdirAll to create empty  files or directories in arbitrary locations in the host filesystem.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform a denial of service attack against the host system.

How to mitigate CVE-2024-45310

Sources

• https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-jfvp-7x6p-h2pv
• https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/releases/tag/v1.1.14
• https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/releases/tag/v1.2.0-rc.3