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CVE-2019-18837An issue was discovered in crun before 0.10.5. With a crafted image, it doesn't correctly check whether a target is a symlink, resulting…
- 8.6HighCVSS base score
- 1.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 27% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An issue was discovered in crun before 0.10.5. With a crafted image, it doesn't correctly check whether a target is a symlink, resulting in access to files outside of the container. This occurs in libcrun/linux.c and libcrun/chroot_realpath.c.
Timeline
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By trellix
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Affected products
References
References4
- https://github.com/containers/crun/pull/173 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/containers/crun/releases/tag/0.10.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ITB2UNEGHXZUR3ATYHWPSK5LJB36N7AP/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DTA5SJUAKQUK6HRY2CZVJUIZP5BO3EOG/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-8538 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2019-18837)Record last updated .