Portainer 1.24.1 and earlier is affected by an insecure permissions vulnerability that may lead to remote arbitrary code execution. A non-admin user is allowed to spawn new containers with critical capabilities such as SYS_MODULE, which can be used to take over the Docker host.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-24263
Reference (s):
- https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/4105