An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-27151
Reference (s):
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5
- https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0