{"id":"CVE-2020-2023","details":"Kata Containers doesn't restrict containers from accessing the guest's root filesystem device. Malicious containers can exploit this to gain code execution on the guest and masquerade as the kata-agent. This issue affects Kata Containers 1.11 versions earlier than 1.11.1; Kata Containers 1.10 versions earlier than 1.10.5; and Kata Containers 1.9 and earlier versions.","aliases":["GHSA-6978-vg2j-cc9q"],"modified":"2026-07-08T12:44:29.383711Z","published":"2020-06-10T18:15:11.280Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/kata-containers/agent/issues/791"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.10.5"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.1"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/kata-containers/agent/pull/792"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/2488"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/2477"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/2487"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8ff5bdc5386a35f4779661c2f214b28b614bb276"},{"introduced":"ebe9677f23b574c5defacf57456d221d8ce901f2"},{"fixed":"ecb69a3f67ec97d071e17b95cbe3d06d270bf982"},{"introduced":"23e554b316aa994c6f48c9b1bd84060629fd6361"},{"fixed":"984ccea48a1badd2863a68f91c8d95e229898095"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:runtime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1.9"},{"introduced":"1.10"},{"fixed":"1.10.5"},{"introduced":"1.11"},{"fixed":"1.11.1"}],"source":["CPE_RANGE","REFERENCES"]}}],"versions":["1.10.4","1.11.0","1.10.3","1.10.2","1.10.1","1.10.0","1.9.0","1.9.0-rc0","1.9.0-alpha2","1.9.0-alpha1","1.9.0-alpha0","1.8.0-rc0","1.8.0-alpha2","1.8.0-alpha1","1.8.0-alpha0","1.7.0","1.7.0-rc1","1.7.0-alpha1","1.7.0-alpha0","1.6.0-rc2","1.6.0-rc1","1.5.0","1.5.0-rc2","1.4.0","1.5.0-rc1","1.3.0","1.3.0-rc1","1.3.0-rc0","1.2.0","1.1.0","1.0.0","0.3.0","0.2.0","0.0.1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-2023.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L"}]}