Kata Containers before 1.11.0 on Cloud Hypervisor persists guest filesystem changes to the underlying image file on the host. A malicious guest can overwrite the image file to gain control of all subsequent guest VMs. Since Kata Containers uses the same VM image file with all VMMs, this issue may also affect QEMU and Firecracker based guests.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-22052 Kata Containers before 1.11.0 on Cloud Hypervisor persists guest filesystem changes to the underlying image file on the host. A malicious guest can overwrite the image file to gain control of all subsequent guest VMs. Since Kata Containers uses the same VM image file with all VMMs, this issue may also affect QEMU and Firecracker based guests.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: palo_alto

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T19:35:36.062Z

Reserved: 2019-12-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-2025

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Status : Modified

Published: 2020-05-19T21:15:10.163

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:24:29.010

Link: CVE-2020-2025

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