CVE-2023-27561 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2023-27561

runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation...

Vulnerability Description

runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom images. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2019-19921 regression.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Unknown
Vulnerable Versions:
Unknown

Timeline

Official Publish: March 3rd, 2023
Last Modified: December 16th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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