INFSA-2025:20957: runc security update
Information about definition
Identificator: INFSA-2025:20957
Type: security
Release date: 2025-12-01 14:28:52 UTC
Information about package
The runC tool is a lightweight, portable implementation of the Open Container Format (OCF) that provides container runtime.
Vulnerabilities description
- CVE-2025-31133
A flaw was found in runc. This flaw exploits an issue with how masked paths are implementedin runc. When masking files, runc will bind-mount the container's /dev/null inode on top of the file. However, if an attacker can replace /dev/null with a symlink to some other procfs file, runc will instead bind-mount the symlink target read-write.
- CVE-2025-52565
A flaw exploits an issue in /dev/console bind-mounts. When creating the /dev/console bind-mount (to /dev/pts/$n), if an attacker replaces /dev/pts/$n with a symlink then runc will bind-mount the symlink target over /dev/console.
- CVE-2025-52881
A flaw was found in runc. This is a flaw that allowed an attacker to trick runc into writing the LSM process labels for a container process into a dummy tmpfs file and thus not apply the correct LSM labels to the container process.
Severity level
| CVE | Score CVSS 2.0 | Score CVSS 3.x | Score CVSS 4.0 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
NIST — CVE-2025-31133
|
no information | 8.2 | no information |
|
NIST — CVE-2025-52565
|
no information | 8.2 | no information |
|
NIST — CVE-2025-52881
|
no information | 8.2 | no information |
Updated packages