Untriaged
Permalink
CVE-2026-46680
7.3 HIGH
- CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
- Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
- Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
- Attack Requirement (AT): Present (P)
- Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
- User Interaction (UI): Passive (P)
- Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): High (H)
- Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): High (H)
- Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): High (H)
- Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
- Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
- Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
- Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): Present (P)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): Passive (P)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): High (H)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): High (H)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): High (H)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
- Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
- Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
- Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
- Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
- Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
- Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
- Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
- Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
- Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
- Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
Activity log
- Created suggestion
containerd user ID handling bypass allows runAsNonRoot evasion
containerd is an open-source container runtime. In versions prior to 1.7.32, 2.0.9, 2.2.4 and 2.3.1, containers launched with a numeric User directive that cannot be parsed as a 32-bit integer are incorrectly treated as a username, leading to runAsNonRoot evasion. If a crafted image provides an /etc/passwd file mapping this large numeric string to root, the container ultimately runs as root (UID 0). This allows the Kubernetes runAsNonRoot restriction to be bypassed, causing unexpected behavior for environments that require containers to run as a non-root user. This issue has been fixed in versions 1.7.32, 2.0.9, 2.2.4 and 2.3.1.
References
-
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/security/advisories/GHSA-fqw6-gf59-qr4w x_refsource_CONFIRM
Affected products
containerd
- ==>= 2.2.5, < 2.3.1
- ==>= 2.0.4, < 2.0.9
- ==>= 2.0.10, < 2.2.4
- ==< 1.7.32
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.containerd
Daemon to control runC
Package maintainers
-
@getchoo Seth Flynn <getchoo@tuta.io>
-
@vdemeester Vincent Demeester <vincent@sbr.pm>
-
@techknowlogick techknowlogick <techknowlogick@gitea.com>