CVE-2025-52881

NameCVE-2025-52881
Descriptionrunc 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1120140

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
runc (PTS)bullseye1.0.0~rc93+ds1-5+deb11u5vulnerable
bullseye (security)1.0.0~rc93+ds1-5+deb11u3vulnerable
bookworm, bookworm (security)1.1.5+ds1-1+deb12u1vulnerable
trixie1.1.15+ds1-2vulnerable
forky, sid1.3.3+ds1-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
runcsourceexperimental1.3.3+ds1-1
runcsource(unstable)1.3.3+ds1-21120140

Notes

https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-cgrx-mc8f-2prm
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/11/05/3

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