CVE-2025-24965

Publication date 19 February 2025

Last updated 26 February 2025

Ubuntu priority

Description

crun is an open source OCI Container Runtime fully written in C. In affected versions A malicious container image could trick the krun handler into escaping the root filesystem, allowing file creation or modification on the host. No special permissions are needed, only the ability for the current user to write to the target file. The problem is fixed in crun 1.20 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
crun	25.10 questing	Needs evaluation
	25.04 plucky	Needs evaluation
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation

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References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
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Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24965
https://github.com/containers/crun/security/advisories/GHSA-f42g-r5jj-qh4j
https://github.com/containers/crun/commit/0aec82c2b686f0b1793deed43b46524fe2e8b5a7 (1.20)
https://github.com/containers/crun/commit/0aec82c2b686f0b1793deed43b46524fe2e8b5a7
https://github.com/containers/crun/releases/tag/1.20