CVE-2023-38496

Summary

CVE-2023-38496 affects Apptainer, an open source container platform. In version 1.2.0-rc.2, a privilege drop during container network setup was found to be ineffective, leading to subsequent functions being executed with root privileges. This vulnerability poses a limited attack surface, but an attacker could potentially manipulate a starter config to delete directories on the host filesystems. Apptainer users are strongly advised to upgrade to version 1.2.1 to mitigate this issue. No known workarounds exist aside from the upgrade.

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