{"id":"CVE-2023-25809","summary":"rootless: `/sys/fs/cgroup` is writable when cgroupns isn't unshared in runc","details":"runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In affected versions it was found that rootless runc makes `/sys/fs/cgroup` writable in following conditons: 1. when runc is executed inside the user namespace, and the `config.json` does not specify the cgroup namespace to be unshared (e.g.., `(docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=host`, with Rootless Docker/Podman/nerdctl) or 2. when runc is executed outside the user namespace, and `/sys` is mounted with `rbind, ro` (e.g., `runc spec --rootless`; this condition is very rare). A container may gain the write access to user-owned cgroup hierarchy `/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/...` on the host . Other users's cgroup hierarchies are not affected. Users are advised to upgrade to version 1.1.5. Users unable to upgrade may unshare the cgroup namespace (`(docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=private)`. This is the default behavior of Docker/Podman/nerdctl on cgroup v2 hosts. or add `/sys/fs/cgroup` to `maskedPaths`.\n","aliases":["GHSA-m8cg-xc2p-r3fc","GO-2023-1682"],"modified":"2026-05-15T04:06:17.925757295Z","published":"2023-03-29T18:22:56.875Z","related":["ALSA-2023:6380","ALSA-2023:6938","ALSA-2023:6939","CGA-fmvc-cj26-gg63","SUSE-SU-2023:1726-1","SUSE-SU-2023:2003-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:12826-1","openSUSE-SU-2025:15424-1"],"database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"GitHub_M","cwe_ids":["CWE-281"],"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/25xxx/CVE-2023-25809.json"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/25xxx/CVE-2023-25809.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-m8cg-xc2p-r3fc"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25809"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/0d62b950e60f6980b54fe3bafd9a9c608dc1df17"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L"}]}