What is CVE-2023-38496?

CVE-2023-38496 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apptainer, classified under Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2023-07-25.

How severe is CVE-2023-38496?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Apptainer

CVE-2023-38496

Apptainer is an open source container platform. Version 1.2.0-rc.2 introduced an ineffective privilege drop when requesting container network setup, therefore subsequent functions are called with root privileges, the attack surface is rath…

EPSS: 0.000 (15.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H.

Affected products

Apptainer — versions >= 1.2.0-rc.2, < 1.2.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/security/advisories/GHSA-mmx5-32m4-wxvx (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/pull/1523 (x_refsource_MISC)
https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/pull/1578 (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-38496?: CVE-2023-38496 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apptainer, classified under Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2023-07-25.
How severe is CVE-2023-38496?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.