It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-208 advisory.

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In affected     versions it was found that rootless runc makes `/sys/fs/cgroup` writable in following conditons: 1. when     runc is executed inside the user namespace, and the `config.json` does not specify the cgroup namespace to     be unshared (e.g.., `(docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=host`, with Rootless Docker/Podman/nerdctl) or     2. when runc is executed outside the user namespace, and `/sys` is mounted with `rbind, ro` (e.g., `runc     spec --rootless`; this condition is very rare). A container may gain the write access to user-owned cgroup     hierarchy `/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/...` on the host . Other users's cgroup hierarchies are not affected.
    Users are advised to upgrade to version 1.1.5. Users unable to upgrade may unshare the cgroup namespace     (`(docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=private)`. This is the default behavior of Docker/Podman/nerdctl     on cgroup v2 hosts. or add `/sys/fs/cgroup` to `maskedPaths`. (CVE-2023-25809)

    runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to     libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with     custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom images. NOTE: this issue exists because of a     CVE-2019-19921 regression. (CVE-2023-27561)

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. It was found     that AppArmor can be bypassed when `/proc` inside the container is symlinked with a specific mount     configuration. This issue has been fixed in runc version 1.1.5, by prohibiting symlinked `/proc`. See PR     #3785 for details. users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should avoid using an untrusted     container image. (CVE-2023-28642)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Amazon Linux 2023 : runc (ALAS2023-2023-208)

high Nessus Plugin ID 177193

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Version 1.2 Dec 12, 2024, 9:55 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202412120955
Version 1.1 Jun 14, 2023, 4:30 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202306141630
Version 1.0 Jun 13, 2023, 2:18 PM New Plugin Feed: 202306131418