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CVE-2023-30549 Detail

Current Description

Apptainer is an open source container platform for Linux. There is an ext4 use-after-free flaw that is exploitable through versions of Apptainer < 1.1.0 and installations that include apptainer-suid < 1.1.8 on older operating systems where that CVE has not been patched. That includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Debian 10 buster (unless the linux-5.10 package is installed), Ubuntu 18.04 bionic and Ubuntu 20.04 focal. Use-after-free flaws in the kernel can be used to attack the kernel for denial of service and potentially for privilege escalation. Apptainer 1.1.8 includes a patch that by default disables mounting of extfs filesystem types in setuid-root mode, while continuing to allow mounting of extfs filesystems in non-setuid "rootless" mode using fuse2fs. Some workarounds are possible. Either do not install apptainer-suid (for versions 1.1.0 through 1.1.7) or set `allow setuid = no` in apptainer.conf. This requires having unprivileged user namespaces enabled and except for apptainer 1.1.x versions will disallow mounting of sif files, extfs files, and squashfs files in addition to other, less significant impacts. (Encrypted sif files are also not supported unprivileged in apptainer 1.1.x.). Alternatively, use the `limit containers` options in apptainer.conf/singularity.conf to limit sif files to trusted users, groups, and/or paths, and set `allow container extfs = no` to disallow mounting of extfs overlay files. The latter option by itself does not disallow mounting of extfs overlay partitions inside SIF files, so that's why the former options are also needed.


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Hyperlink Resource
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-1184 Not Applicable 
https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/commit/5a4964f5ba9c8d89a0e353b97f51fd607670a9f7 Patch 
https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/releases/tag/v1.1.8 Release Notes 
https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/security/advisories/GHSA-j4rf-7357-f4cg Mitigation  Vendor Advisory 
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2220eaf90992c11d888fe771055d4de3303
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4f04351888a83e595571de672e0a4a8b74f
https://lwn.net/Articles/932136/
https://lwn.net/Articles/932137/
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-1184 Not Applicable 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-13
https://sylabs.io/2023/04/response-to-cve-2023-30549/
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-1184 Not Applicable 
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1184.html Not Applicable 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-416 Use After Free cwe source acceptance level NIST   GitHub, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2023-30549
NVD Published Date:
04/25/2023
NVD Last Modified:
11/25/2023
Source:
GitHub, Inc.