CVE-2020-10696

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-03-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

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 products

Buildah Project Buildah: before 1.14.5 — fixed in 1.14.5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 3.11

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Buildah Project Buildah 1.14.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-10696
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10696
https://github.com/containers/buildah/pull/2245
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-10696
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10696
https://github.com/containers/buildah/pull/2245

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