CVE-2020-10696: buildah_project buildah
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2020-10696 is a high (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in buildah_project buildah. EPSS estimates a 2.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.
Public exploit (GitHub, Date unknown)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 15 · Related 14Timeline
- 31-03-2020PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 04-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
A path traversal flaw was found in Buildah in versions before 1.14.5. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into building a malicious container image hosted on an HTTP(s) server and then write files to the user's system anywhere that the user has permissions.
CVSS metrics
9 scores · 8 sources · 2 versions- OSV · Red hatEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · WolfiEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVDNIST8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · AlpineEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
2.68%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
86%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 2.68% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
2 foundBuildah
Maturity: poc
Exploit Reference (bugzilla.redhat.com)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Redhat193 products
- enterprise_linuxEOL7.0 | 8.0
- openshift_container_platform3.11
- afterburn< 0:4.1.1-3.rhaos4.2.el8
- afterburn-debuginfo< 0:4.1.1-3.rhaos4.2.el8
- ansible-asb-modules< 0:0.4.1-1.el7
Alpine1 product
- buildah< 1.14.4-r0
Buildah_project1 product
- buildah< 1.14.5
Chainguard1 product
- buildahAll versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
- golang-github-containers-buildah< 1.11.6-2
Github.com/containers1 product
- buildah< 1.14.4
Red hat1 product
- buildahFixed in buildah-1.14.5
Wolfi1 product
- buildahAll versions (No fix recorded)
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References
30 links- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10696X Refsource CONFIRMFIXWEBExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory