CVE detail

CVE-2021-20206 — CVE-2021-20206

Published 2021-03-26 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor linuxfoundation · Product container_network_interface · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.2

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0152

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

72.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

An improper limitation of path name flaw was found in containernetworking/cni in versions before 0.8.1. When specifying the plugin to load in the 'type' field in the network configuration, it is possible to use special elements such as "../" separators to reference binaries elsewhere on the system. This flaw allows an attacker to execute other existing binaries other than the cni plugins/types, such as 'reboot'. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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