CVE-2025-27612
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Libcontainer is affected by capabilities elevation similar to GHSA-f3fp-gc8g-vw66
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/opencontainers/runc | | |
| crates.io | libcontainer | <0.5.3 | 0.5.3 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27612
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/commit/747e342d2026fbf3a395db3e2a491ebef00082f1
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-f3fp-gc8g-vw66
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/blob/9e63fa4da1672a78ca45100f3059a732784a5174/crates/libcontainer/src/container/tenant_builder.rs#L408
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/security/advisories/GHSA-5w4j-f78p-4wh9
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27612.html
- https://github.com/containers/crun/blob/3ec6298abd79e144fbf3fa6db90793ff4c0516f9/src/exec.c#L319
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/blob/986451c24e17c8d4be3c454f60b1f7be4af3e8b4/exec.go#L234-L242
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki
- https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/capabilities.7.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.