CVE-2025-27612
libcontainer is a library for container control. Prior to libcontainer 0.5.3, while creating a tenant container, the tenant builder accepts a list of capabilities to be added in the spec of tenant container. The logic here adds the given capabilities to all capabilities of main container if present in spec, otherwise simply set provided capabilities as capabilities of the tenant container. However, setting inherited caps in any case for tenant container can lead to elevation of capabilities, similar to CVE-2022-29162. This does not affect youki binary itself. This is only applicable if you are using libcontainer directly and using the tenant builder.
EPSS 0.17% · 7.0th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| youki-dev | youki | < 0.5.3, < 0.5.3 |
| crates.io | libcontainer | 0, 0 |
Timeline
- Jan 21, 1970 Security Advisory
- Mar 21, 2025 CVE Published
- Mar 21, 2025 Coalition ESS Score
- Mar 21, 2025 PoC Published
- Mar 22, 2025 EPSS Score
- Apr 4, 2025 EPSS Score
- Apr 13, 2025 Coalition ESS Score
- Apr 18, 2025 EPSS Score
- May 1, 2025 EPSS Score
- May 14, 2025 EPSS Score
- May 28, 2025 EPSS Score
- Jun 10, 2025 EPSS Score
References
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/commit/747e342d2026fbf3a395db3e2a491ebef00082f1 fix
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/security/advisories/GHSA-5w4j-f78p-4wh9 url
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-f3fp-gc8g-vw66 technical
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/blob/9e63fa4da1672a78ca45100f3059a732784a5174/crates/libcontainer/src/container/tenant_builder.rs#L408 technical
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27612 advisory
- https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/capabilities.7.html url
- https://github.com/containers/crun/blob/3ec6298abd79e144fbf3fa6db90793ff4c0516f9/src/exec.c#L319 url
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/blob/986451c24e17c8d4be3c454f60b1f7be4af3e8b4/exec.go#L234-L242 url
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki package