Bug 1711905 (CVE-2019-10144) - CVE-2019-10144 rkt: processes run with `rkt enter` are given all capabilities during stage 2
Summary: CVE-2019-10144 rkt: processes run with `rkt enter` are given all capabilities...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2019-10144
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1715686
Blocks: 1711908
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-05-20 11:21 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2021-02-16 21:55 UTC (History)
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A flaw was found where rkt does not isolate processes in containers that are run with `rkt enter`. Processes run with `rkt enter` are given all capabilities during stage 2 (the actual environment in which the applications run). Compromised containers could exploit this flaw to access host resources.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:55:45 UTC
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-05-20 11:21:26 UTC 
Processes run with `rkt enter` are given all capabilities during stage 2(the actual environment in which the applications run).


Reference:

https://coreos.com/rkt/docs/latest/devel/architecture.html#stage-2
Comment 4 Sam Fowler 2019-05-28 06:36:44 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Yuval Avrahami (Twistlock)
Comment 5 Sam Fowler 2019-05-31 01:06:54 UTC 
Created rkt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1715686]
Comment 6 Sam Fowler 2019-05-31 01:08:09 UTC 
External Reference:

https://www.twistlock.com/labs-blog/breaking-out-of-coresos-rkt-3-new-cves/
Comment 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:55:45 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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