Bug 1919391 (CVE-2021-20206) - CVE-2021-20206 containernetworking-cni: Arbitrary path injection via type field in CNI configuration
Summary: CVE-2021-20206 containernetworking-cni: Arbitrary path injection via type fie...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2021-20206
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1919392 1926161
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Reported: 2021-01-22 18:36 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2023-10-09 11:30 UTC (History)
64 users (show)

Fixed In Version: containernetworking/cni 0.8.1
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An improper limitation of path name flaw was found in containernetworking/cni. When specifying the plugin to load in the `type` field in the network configuration, it is possible to use special elements such as "../" separators to reference binaries elsewhere on the system. This flaw allows an attacker to execute other existing binaries other than the cni plugins/types, such as `reboot`. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.
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Last Closed: 2021-03-10 15:05:45 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:0799 0 None None None 2021-03-10 11:16:14 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:2438 0 None None None 2021-07-27 22:31:44 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:3001 0 None None None 2021-08-03 20:29:16 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:0492 0 None None None 2022-02-16 11:19:42 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:1660 0 None None None 2022-05-02 05:52:05 UTC

Description Pedro Sampaio 2021-01-22 18:36:12 UTC
A flaw was found in libcni. A user may  be able to change the "type:" field in a CNI configuration to an arbitrary path and could execute arbitrary binaries on a host.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/containernetworking/cni/pull/808

Comment 1 Mark Cooper 2021-01-29 07:50:21 UTC
Upstream fix: https://github.com/containernetworking/cni/pull/808

Comment 6 Mark Cooper 2021-02-03 07:47:44 UTC
Generally for this vulnerability adding and removing network definitions will be a privileged operation. However as this is a library it's difficult to determine all uses and as such considering the worst case and as this is unexpected behaviour it's considered a security issue.

The greatest risk will be to applications which load network definitions - however as it is a go mod library, go binaries which depend on containernetworking/cni may also be affected by this and affects for OpenShift containers have been added as such.

Comment 7 Lokesh Mandvekar 2021-02-03 13:16:53 UTC
containernetworking-plugins package should be looked at. It uses github.com/containernetworking/plugins which vendors in containernetworking/cni. https://github.com/containernetworking/plugins/blob/master/go.mod#L10

Comment 8 Lokesh Mandvekar 2021-02-03 13:18:12 UTC
(In reply to Lokesh Mandvekar from comment #7)
> containernetworking-plugins package should be looked at. It uses
> github.com/containernetworking/plugins which vendors in
> containernetworking/cni.
> https://github.com/containernetworking/plugins/blob/master/go.mod#L10

This package is present in both RHEL and Fedora.

Comment 9 Mark Cooper 2021-02-03 13:47:28 UTC
Our scans for the containers should account for that - but i'll double check to make sure. 

We're just confirming the RPM affects now, but good point about the rpm tho, will do, thanks @lsm5!

Comment 15 Mark Cooper 2021-02-05 06:02:58 UTC
Created containernetworking-plugins tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1925399]


Created golang-github-containernetworking-cni tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1925398]

Comment 17 Mark Cooper 2021-02-06 15:44:35 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: Casey Callendrello (Red Hat)

Comment 25 Mark Cooper 2021-02-09 13:30:12 UTC
Created buildah tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1926796]

Comment 26 Mark Cooper 2021-02-09 13:42:19 UTC
Created podman tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1926801]

Comment 28 RaTasha Tillery-Smith 2021-02-16 19:40:04 UTC
Statement:

OpenShift ServiceMesh (OSSM) does package a vulnerable version of containernetworking/cni, however, the NetworkDefinitionAttachment is defined in code and cannot be easily changed except through a user who has access to the operator namespace such as cluster-admin. As such, for OSSM, the impact is Low.

Comment 35 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-10 11:16:09 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHEL-8-CNV-2.6

Via RHSA-2021:0799 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0799

Comment 36 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-03-10 15:05:45 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-2021-20206

Comment 37 errata-xmlrpc 2021-04-05 13:39:58 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7

Via RHSA-2021:1007 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1007

Comment 38 errata-xmlrpc 2021-04-05 13:55:05 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7

Via RHSA-2021:1005 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1005

Comment 41 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-19 15:12:27 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7

Via RHSA-2021:1552 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1552

Comment 42 errata-xmlrpc 2021-07-27 22:31:44 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8

Via RHSA-2021:2438 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2438

Comment 43 errata-xmlrpc 2021-08-03 20:29:12 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8

Via RHSA-2021:3001 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3001

Comment 45 errata-xmlrpc 2022-02-16 11:19:37 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7

Via RHSA-2022:0492 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0492

Comment 46 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-02 05:52:01 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7

Via RHSA-2022:1660 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1660


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