GHSA-vf95-55w6-qmrf
youki container escape and denial of service due to arbitrary write gadgets and procfs write redirects
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact ###
youki’s apparmor handling performs insufficiently strict write-target validation, which—combined with path substitution during pathname resolution—can allow writes to unintended procfs locations.
**Weak write-target check**
youki only verifies that the destination lies somewhere under procfs. As a result, a write intended for `/proc/self/attr/apparmor/exec` can succeed even if the path has been redirected to `/proc/sys/kernel/hostname`(which is also in procfs).
**Path substitution**
While resolving a path component-by-component, a shared-mount race can substitute intermediate components and redirect the final target.
This is a different project, but the core logic is similar to the CVE in runc. Issues were identified in runc, and verification was also conducted in youki to confirm the problems.
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-cgrx-mc8f-2prm
### Credits ###
Thanks to Li Fubang (@lifubang from acmcoder.com, CIIC) and Tõnis Tiigi (@tonistiigi from Docker) for both independently discovering runc's original vulnerability, as well as Aleksa Sarai (@cyphar from SUSE) for the original research into this class of security issues and solutions.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-cgrx-mc8f-2prm
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/security/advisories/GHSA-vf95-55w6-qmrf
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62596
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/commit/5886c91073b9be748bd8d5aed49c4a820548030a
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki
- https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin/pathrs-lite/procfs
- https://youtu.be/tGseJW_uBB8
- https://youtu.be/y1PaBzxwRWQ