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.
CVE-2025-52881
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.8% (56th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.
Also known asEUVD-2025-37940 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-cgrx-mc8f-2prm (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 50EG Risk 50/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity75% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation40% × 40%EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines. - EPSS PROB
- 0.8%
- EPSS %ILE
- 56th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (7.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 0.8% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
November 6, 2025
Last Modified
October 7, 2026
Advisory Details (10)
Auto-updated Oct 7, 2026commit 77d217c7c377 (opencontainers/runc)
Fix landed in opencontainers/runc commit 77d217c7c377 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/77d217c7c3775d8ca5af89e477e81568ef4572dbcommit 77889b56db93 (opencontainers/runc)
Fix landed in opencontainers/runc commit 77889b56db93 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/77889b56db939c323d29d1130f28f9aea2edb544commit 6fc191449109 (opencontainers/runc)
Fix landed in opencontainers/runc commit 6fc191449109 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/6fc191449109ea14bb7d61238f24a33fe08c651fcommit 4b37cd93f86e (opencontainers/runc)
Fix landed in opencontainers/runc commit 4b37cd93f86e — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/4b37cd93f86e72feac866442988b549b5b7bf3e6commit 44a0fcf685db (opencontainers/runc)
Fix landed in opencontainers/runc commit 44a0fcf685db — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/44a0fcf685db051c80b8c269812bb177f5802c58commit 435cc81be6b7 (opencontainers/runc)
Fix landed in opencontainers/runc commit 435cc81be6b7 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/435cc81be6b79cdec73b4002c0dae549b2f6ae6dcommit 3f925525b44d (opencontainers/runc)
Fix landed in opencontainers/runc commit 3f925525b44d — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/3f925525b44d247e390e529e772a0dc0c0bc3557runc/RELEASES.md at v1.4.0-rc.2 · opencontainers/runc · GitHub
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/blob/v1.4.0-rc.2/RELEASES.mdcommit fdcc9d3cad2f (opencontainers/runc)
Fix landed in opencontainers/runc commit fdcc9d3cad2f — awaiting tagged release
http://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/fdcc9d3cad2f85954a241ccb910a61aaa1ef47f3commit a41366e74080 (opencontainers/runc)
Fix landed in opencontainers/runc commit a41366e74080 — awaiting tagged release
http://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/a41366e74080fa9f26a2cd3544e2801449697322Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-52881(20)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:72851Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: multicluster engine for Kubernetes v2.9.8 security update
- RHSA-2026:61629Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2.2 (ROCm)
- RHSA-2026:61628Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AI Inference Server Model Optimization Tools 3.2.2 (CUDA)
- RHSA-2026:61627Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2.2 (CUDA)
- RHSA-2026:41928Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers
- RHSA-2026:39894Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Release of containers for RHOSO 18.0.21
- RHSA-2026:37387Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.22.0 security, enhancement & bug fix update
- CVE-2025-52881Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)High
runc: LSM labels can be bypassed with malicious config using dummy procfs files
- +12 more
Patch Availability(34)
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
(6 across 5 ecosystems)
Go(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| github.com/opencontainers/runc | — |
| — |
| github.com/opencontainers/selinux | — |
| — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| runc | 1.0.0+ds1-1 ... 1.3.5+ds1-1 (50 versions) |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| runc | 1.1.10+ds1-1 ... 1.4.3+ds1-1 (26 versions) |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| runc | 1.1.15+ds1-2 ... 1.4.3+ds1-1 (12 versions) |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| runc | 1.1.15+ds1-2 ... 1.3.3+ds1-1 (7 versions) |
| — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(24)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHBA-2025:21224IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHBA-2025:21224 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:19927IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:19927 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:20957IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:20957 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:21220IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:21220 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:21232IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:21232 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:21328IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:21328 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:21633IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:21633 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:21634IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:21634 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:21702IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:21702 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:21795IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:21795 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:21824IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:21824 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:22011IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:22011 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:22012IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:22012 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:22030IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:22030 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:22275IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:22275 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:23113IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:23113 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:23347IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:23347 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:23543IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2025:23543 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:0050IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2026:0050 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:0315IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2026:0315 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:0316IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2026:0316 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:0331IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2026:0331 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:0418IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2026:0418 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:0424IMPORTANT2025-11-05
RHSA-2026:0424 — Important
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 43× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 95 of 204 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 5 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 109 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-01 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
- 2026-11-01 08:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgrx-mc8f-2prm · GitHub severity HIGH
- 2026-11-01 08:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-31 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
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- 2026-10-27 12:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 12:42 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-26 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
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- 2026-10-25 16:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
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- 2026-10-18 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
- 2026-10-18 14:11 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-18 05:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
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- 2026-10-14 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
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- 2026-10-11 20:32 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-07 21:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-07 21:39 UTCVendor advisory
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Publicly available exploits
(1 reference)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- GitHub PoCjq6l43d1/proxmox-lxc-docker-fixPublished Nov 11, 2025
Workaround for CVE-2025-52881: Fixes Docker/Podman breakage in Proxmox LXC containers caused by AppArmor incompatibility with runc 1.2.7+. Universal wrapper for community-scripts with automatic AppArmor configuration.
Open source ↗
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