What is CVE-2020-2025?

CVE-2020-2025 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kata Containers, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2020-05-19.

How severe is CVE-2020-2025?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2020-2025 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Kata Containers

CVE-2020-2025

Kata Containers before 1.11.0 on Cloud Hypervisor persists guest filesystem changes to the underlying image file on the host. A malicious guest can overwrite the image file to gain control of all subsequent guest VMs. Since Kata Containers uses the same VM image file with all VMMs, this issue may also affect QEMU and Firecracker based guests.

EPSS: 0.003 (23.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Kata Containers — versions unspecified
Katacontainers Runtime

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

Metarget/metarget

References

psirt@paloaltonetworks.com (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-2025?: CVE-2020-2025 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kata Containers, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2020-05-19.
How severe is CVE-2020-2025?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-2025 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.