CVE-2020-27151: katacontainers kata_containers
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2020-27151 is a high (CVSS 9.0) vulnerability in katacontainers kata_containers. EPSS estimates a 2.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Public exploit (reference, Date unknown)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Timeline
- 07-12-2020PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 04-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.
CVSS metrics
2 scores · 1 source · 2 versionsEPSS trend
Probability
2.04%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
81%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 2.04% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (bugs.launchpad.net)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Katacontainers1 product
- kata_containers≤ 1.11.3 | 2.0.0:alpha1 | 2.0.0:alpha2 | 2.0.0:alpha3 | 2.0.0:rc0 | 2.0.0:rc1
1 vendor · 1 product
References
4 links- bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234X Refsource MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory