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CVE-2020-24263

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-03-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

Portainer 1.24.1 and earlier is affected by an insecure permissions vulnerability that may lead to remote arbitrary code execution. A non-admin user is allowed to spawn new containers with critical capabilities such as SYS_MODULE, which can be used to take over the Docker host.

Affected products

• portainer: through 1.24.1

References

• https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/4105
• https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/4105

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