CVE-2025-52881 - CVE House
Back to Database
Status published High CVE-2025-52881

runc: LSM labels can be bypassed with malicious config using dummy procfs files

Vulnerability Description

runc 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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

THREAT MONITOR

Am I Vulnerable?

Launch our assessment wizard to check if your infrastructure is exposed to • CVE-2025-52881

Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

opencontainers

View all reports →

Affected Software

runc
Vulnerable Versions:
<= 1.2.7, < 1.2.8, <= 1.3.2, < 1.3.3, <= 1.4.0-rc.2, < 1.4.0-rc.3

Timeline

Official Publish: November 6th, 2025
Last Modified: November 6th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.