A path traversal flaw was found in Buildah in versions before 1.14.5. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into building a malicious container image hosted on an HTTP(s) server and then write files to the user's system anywhere that the user has permissions.
CVE-2020-10696
This high-severity CVE scores 8.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 2.6%, top 16% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 8.8
- EG Score
- 8.8(medium)
- EG Risk
- —
- EPSS
- 83.7%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
March 31, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (6)
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-10696
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10696
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/containers/buildah/pull/2245
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-10696
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10696
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/containers/buildah/pull/2245
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-10696(8)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2020:2117Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: podman security update
- RHSA-2020:2116Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: buildah security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2020:1932Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: container-tools:rhel8 security update
- RHSA-2020:1931Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: container-tools:2.0 security update
- RHSA-2020:1926Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: container-tools:1.0 security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2020:1449Red Hat Product SecurityLow
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.1.41 security update
- RHSA-2020:1396Red Hat Product SecurityLow
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.12 podman security update
- RHSA-2020:1401Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.2.28 security update
Patch Availability(8)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | podman-0:1.6.4-18.el7_8 | 2020-05-12 | redhat |
| redhat | buildah-0:1.11.6-11.el7_8 | 2020-05-12 | redhat |
| redhat | container-tools:rhel8-8020020200420180128.28c38760 | 2020-04-28 | redhat |
| redhat | container-tools:1.0-8020020200420104655.28c38760 | 2020-04-28 | redhat |
| redhat | container-tools:2.0-8020020200420175838.28c38760 | 2020-04-28 | redhat |
| redhat | podman-0:1.0.2-4.dev.git96ccc2e.rhaos4.1.el8 | 2020-04-22 | redhat |
| redhat | podman-0:1.6.4-10.rhaos4.3.el8 | 2020-04-14 | redhat |
| redhat | podman-0:1.4.2-6.rhaos4.2.el8 | 2020-04-14 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Go(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| github.com/containers/buildah | — | 1.14.4 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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