GHSA-vpvm-3wq2-2wvm · Severity: high · Ecosystem: go — Opencontainers runc Incorrect Authorization vulnerability
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.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2023-27561 is rated Exploit Available (55.8/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.45%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.05% | 0.45% | +0.40% |
| 2 | 2024-06-07 | 0.04% | 0.05% | +0.01% |
| 3 | 2023-03-07 | — | 0.04% | — |
Full EPSS history (4 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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1.0 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
| 7.0 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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1.0 | 5.9 | 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 |
GHSA-vpvm-3wq2-2wvm · Severity: high · Ecosystem: go — Opencontainers runc Incorrect Authorization vulnerability
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
alpine
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— | CVE-2023-27561: 1 source package rows (runc); 14 state rows across 7 repos (3.17-community, 3.18-community, 3.19-community, 3.20-community, 3.21-community, 3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 14, open 0. | https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-27561 |
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2023-27561 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (runc), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-27561 |
gentoo
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normal | CVE-2023-27561: 1 GLSA(s) (202408-25), 1 atom(s) (app-containers/runc); latest impact normal. | https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2023-27561 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-27561 |
suse
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high | CVE-2023-27561 severity important: SUSE including 257 source package names (1.2.3-2.2.63:runc-1.1.5-150000.41.1, 1.2.3-3.2.78:runc-1.1.5-150000.41.1, …), 560 product×package rows across 297 product lines (Container rancher/elemental-teal-iso/5.4, Container rancher/elemental-teal-rt/5.4, … (297 product lines)): Fixed 393, Known Affected 147, Known Not Affected 20. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-27561/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2023-27561 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (runc), 8 status rows across 8 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, kinetic, lunar, trusty, upstream, xenial): released 6, ignored 1, needs-triage 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-27561 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| linuxfoundation | runc | < 1.1.5 | cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:runc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| redhat | openshift_container_platform | 4.0 | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 8.0 | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 9.0 | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 10.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |