CVE-2020-10696
HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: March 31, 2020 at 09:01 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:48 AM UTC
3 products affected across 2 vendorsEnterprise LinuxOpenShift Container PlatformBuildah
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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
A path traversal flaw was found in Buildah in versions before 1.14.5. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into building a malicious container image hosted on an HTTP(s) server and then write files to the user's system anywhere that the user has permissions.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
95%
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (3)
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-10696x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10696x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/containers/buildah/pull/2245CVSS
8.8HIGHredhat
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-22
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