VDB
CVE-2021-20291
CVE-2021-20291
PUBLISHED
A deadlock vulnerability was found in 'github.com/containers/storage' in versions before 1.28.1. When a container image is processed, each layer is unpacked using `tar`. If one of those layers is not a valid `tar` archive this causes an error leading to an unexpected situation where the code indefinitely waits for the tar unpacked stream, which never finishes. An attacker could use this vulnerability to craft a malicious image, which when downloaded and stored by an application using containers/storage, would then cause a deadlock leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).
EPSS 1.03% · 77.7th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
1.03%
77.7th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:20.04:LTS | golang-github-containers-storage | *, 0, 1.13.2+dfsg1-2 |
Timeline
- Apr 1, 2021 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Apr 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-20291 third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939485 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-20291 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/containers/storage/commit/306fcabc964470e4b3b87a43a8f6b7d698209ee1 third-party-advisory