Description

runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In versions 1.2.7, 1.3.2 and 1.4.0-rc.2, an attacker can trick runc into misdirecting writes to /proc to other procfs files through the use of a racing container with shared mounts (we have also verified this attack is possible to exploit using a standard Dockerfile with docker buildx build as that also permits triggering parallel execution of containers with custom shared mounts configured). This redirect could be through symbolic links in a tmpfs or theoretically other methods such as regular bind-mounts. While similar, the mitigation applied for the related CVE, CVE-2019-19921, was fairly limited and effectively only caused runc to verify that when LSM labels are written they are actually procfs files. This issue is fixed in versions 1.2.8, 1.3.3, and 1.4.0-rc.3.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-11-06T20:23:36.237Z

Last Modified :

2025-11-06T21:07:09.382Z

Source :

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AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-52881 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Linuxfoundation
  • Runc
Opencontainers
  • Runc
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-52881.

URL Resource
http://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/a41366e74080fa9f26a2cd3544e2801449697322 cve-icon cve-icon
http://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/fdcc9d3cad2f85954a241ccb910a61aaa1ef47f3 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/blob/v1.4.0-rc.2/RELEASES.md cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/3f925525b44d247e390e529e772a0dc0c0bc3557 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/435cc81be6b79cdec73b4002c0dae549b2f6ae6d cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/44a0fcf685db051c80b8c269812bb177f5802c58 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/4b37cd93f86e72feac866442988b549b5b7bf3e6 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/6fc191449109ea14bb7d61238f24a33fe08c651f cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/77889b56db939c323d29d1130f28f9aea2edb544 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/77d217c7c3775d8ca5af89e477e81568ef4572db cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/b3dd1bc562ed9996d1a0f249e056c16624046d28 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/d40b3439a9614a86e87b81a94c6811ec6fa2d7d2 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/d61fd29d854b416feaaf128bf650325cd2182165 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/db19bbed5348847da433faa9d69e9f90192bfa64 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/ed6b1693b8b3ae7eb0250a7e76fc888cdacf98c1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/ff6fe1324663538167eca8b3d3eec61e1bd4fa51 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/ff94f9991bd32076c871ef0ad8bc1b763458e480 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-9493-h29p-rfm2 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-cgrx-mc8f-2prm cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-qw9x-cqr3-wc7r cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52881 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-52881 cve-icon

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