Bug 1793305 (CVE-2020-1704)

Summary: CVE-2020-1704 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel7-operator: /etc/passwd is given incorrect privileges
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Mark Cooper <mcooper>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Fixed In Version: openshift-istio-kiali-rhel7-operator-container 1.12.12-2 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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An insecure modification vulnerability in the /etc/passwd file was found in the openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel7-operator. An attacker with access to the container could use this flaw to modify /etc/passwd and escalate their privileges.
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Description Mark Cooper 2020-01-21 06:37:00 UTC
It has been found that multiple containers modify the permissions of /etc/passwd to make them modifiable by users other than root. An attacker with access to the running container can exploit this to modify /etc/passwd to add a user and escalate their privileges. This CVE is specific to the openshift/istio-kiali-rhel7-operator-container.

Original bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1791534

Comment 1 Mark Cooper 2020-01-21 06:37:02 UTC
Statement:

By default this vulnerability is not exploitable in un-privilieged containers running on OpenShift Container Platform. This is because the system call SETUID and SETGID is blocked by the default seccomp policy.

Comment 4 Mark Cooper 2020-01-22 03:23:04 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: Joseph LaMagna-Reiter (SPR Inc.)

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2020-06-02 16:33:30 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Openshift Service Mesh 1.1

Via RHSA-2020:2369 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2369

Comment 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-06-02 17:20:29 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-1704