{"id":"CVE-2020-27151","aliases":["EUVD-2020-19675"],"status":"published","description":"An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"primary","from":"nvd"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-08","score":0.02044,"percentile":0.81318,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"published":"2020-12-07T13:03:54Z","modified":"2026-10-20T10:53:01Z","products":[{"vendor":"katacontainers","product":"kata_containers"}],"references":[{"url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/katacontainers.io/+bug/1878234","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory","report"]},{"url":"https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.12.0","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.11.5","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/2.0.0","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory","advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2020-27151","description":"An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.","status":"published","published":"2020-12-07T13:03:54Z","modified":"2024-08-04T16:11:35.618Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:35:53.552996Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2020-19675","description":"An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.","status":"published","published":"2020-12-07T13:03:54Z","modified":"2024-08-04T16:11:35Z","updated_at":"2026-11-03T03:07:13.515696Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2020-27151","description":"An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.","status":"published","published":"2020-12-07T14:15:11.28Z","modified":"2026-06-17T03:08:52.143Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"primary"},{"version":"2.0","score":9,"vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C","level":"high","assessor":"primary"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:06:27.10541Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2020-27151","description":"An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.","status":"published","published":"2020-12-07T14:15:11.28Z","modified":"2026-10-20T10:53:01.318031442Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:16.248747Z"}]}}