{"id":"CVE-2020-27151","details":"An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.","modified":"2026-02-22T01:29:18.400268Z","published":"2020-12-07T14:15:11.280Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"5ff5c7d6c3aa47583dd3711cff5f0873ebc656e7"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27151.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}