{"id":73100,"date":"2025-11-06T22:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2024-25621-containerd-affected-by-a-local-privilege-escalation-via-wide-permissions-on-cri-directory\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:36:21","slug":"cve-2024-25621-containerd-affected-by-a-local-privilege-escalation-via-wide-permissions-on-cri-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2024-25621-containerd-affected-by-a-local-privilege-escalation-via-wide-permissions-on-cri-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2024-25621 &#8211; containerd affected by a local privilege escalation via wide permissions on CRI directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2024-25621<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Nov. 6, 2025, 6:36 p.m. | 53\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : containerd is an open-source container runtime. Versions 0.1.0 through 1.7.28, 2.0.0-beta.0 through 2.0.6, 2.1.0-beta.0 through 2.1.4 and 2.2.0-beta.0 through 2.2.0-rc.1 have an overly broad default permission vulnerability. Directory paths `\/var\/lib\/containerd`, `\/run\/containerd\/io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri` and `\/run\/containerd\/io.containerd.sandbox.controller.v1.shim` were all created with incorrect permissions. This issue is fixed in versions 1.7.29, 2.0.7, 2.1.5 and 2.2.0. Workarounds include updating system administrator permissions so the host can manually chmod the directories to not have group or world accessible permissions, or to run containerd in rootless mode.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2024-25621 Published : Nov. 6, 2025, 6:36 p.m. | 53\u00a0minutes ago Description : containerd is an open-source container runtime. Versions 0.1.0 through 1.7.28, 2.0.0-beta.0 through 2.0.6, 2.1.0-beta.0 through 2.1.4 and 2.2.0-beta.0 through 2.2.0-rc.1 have an overly broad default permission vulnerability. Directory paths `\/var\/lib\/containerd`, `\/run\/containerd\/io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri` and `\/run\/containerd\/io.containerd.sandbox.controller.v1.shim` were all created with incorrect permissions. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}