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CVE-2019-5736 Detail

Description

runc through 1.0-rc6, as used in Docker before 18.09.2 and other products, allows attackers to overwrite the host runc binary (and consequently obtain host root access) by leveraging the ability to execute a command as root within one of these types of containers: (1) a new container with an attacker-controlled image, or (2) an existing container, to which the attacker previously had write access, that can be attached with docker exec. This occurs because of file-descriptor mishandling, related to /proc/self/exe.


Severity



CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  8.6 HIGH
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H


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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00044.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00074.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00091.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00060.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00011.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00015.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00084.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00007.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00029.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163339/Docker-Container-Escape.html Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165197/Docker-runc-Command-Execution-Proof-Of-Concept.html Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/23/1 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/28/2 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/06/3 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/06/4 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/24/1 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/29/3 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/31/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/01/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/02/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106976 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0303 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0304 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0401 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0408 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0975 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-5736 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/runcescape Third Party Advisory 
https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2019-002/ Third Party Advisory 
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/cve-2019-5736-and-runc-vulnerability/ Patch  Third Party Advisory  Vendor Advisory 
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/iot-edge-fix-cve-2019-5736/ Patch  Third Party Advisory  Vendor Advisory 
https://blog.dragonsector.pl/2019/02/cve-2019-5736-escape-from-docker-and.html Exploit  Mitigation  Third Party Advisory 
https://brauner.github.io/2019/02/12/privileged-containers.html Exploit  Technical Description  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121967 Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/security-bulletins#february-11-2019-runc Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/Frichetten/CVE-2019-5736-PoC Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/docker/docker-ce/releases/tag/v18.09.2 Release Notes  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/0a8e4117e7f715d5fbeef398405813ce8e88558b Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/6635b4f0c6af3810594d2770f662f34ddc15b40d Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/q3k/cve-2019-5736-poc Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/rancher/runc-cve Third Party Advisory 
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/02/11/runc-and-cve-2019-5736/ Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/24e54e3c6b2259e3903b6b8fe26896ac649c481ea99c5739468c92a3%40%3Cdev.dlab.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a258757af84c5074dc7bf932622020fd4f60cef65a84290380386706%40%3Cuser.mesos.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a585f64d14c31ab393b90c5f17e41d9765a1a17eec63856ce750af46%40%3Cdev.dlab.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/acacf018c12636e41667e94ac0a1e9244e887eef2debdd474640aa6e%40%3Cdev.dlab.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b162dd624dc088cd634292f0402282a1d1d0ce853baeae8205bc033c%40%3Cdev.mesos.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc494623986d76593873ce5a40dd69cb3629400d10750d5d7e96b8587%40%3Cdev.dlab.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf1bbc0ea4a9f014cf94df9a12a6477d24a27f52741dbc87f2fd52ff2%40%3Cissues.geode.apache.org%3E
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DLC52IOJN6IQJWJ6CUI6AIUP6GVVG2QP/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EGZKRCKI3Y7FMADO2MENMT4TU24QGHFR/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SWFJGIPYAAAMVSWWI3QWYXGA3ZBU2H4W/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/V6A4OSFM5GGOWW4ECELV5OHX2XRAUSPH/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-21 Third Party Advisory 
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0008/ Third Party Advisory 
https://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com/document/-/facetsearch/document/KM03410944 Third Party Advisory 
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03913en_us Permissions Required 
https://support.mesosphere.com/s/article/Known-Issue-Container-Runtime-Vulnerability-MSPH-2019-0003 Exploit  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190215-runc Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4048-1/ Third Party Advisory 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46359/ Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46369/ Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/02/11/2 Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_06 Third Party Advisory 
https://www.twistlock.com/2019/02/11/how-to-mitigate-cve-2019-5736-in-runc-and-docker/ Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2019-5736
NVD Published Date:
02/11/2019
NVD Last Modified:
02/02/2024
Source:
MITRE