CVE-2021-21334CWE-668

environment variable leak

Medium · published March 10, 2021

CVSS v3.1
6.3
EPSS
2%
Percentile
80.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In containerd (an industry-standard container runtime) before versions 1.3.10 and 1.4.4, containers launched through containerd's CRI implementation (through Kubernetes, crictl, or any other pod/container client that uses the containerd CRI service) that share the same image may receive incorrect environment variables, including values that are defined for other containers. If the affected containers have different security contexts, this may allow sensitive information to be unintentionally shared. If you are not using containerd's CRI implementation (through one of the mechanisms described above), you are not vulnerable to this issue. If you are not launching multiple containers or Kubernetes pods from the same image which have different environment variables, you are not vulnerable to this issue. If you are not launching multiple containers or Kubernetes pods from the same image in rapid succession, you have reduced likelihood of being vulnerable to this issue This vulnerability has been fixed in containerd 1.3.10 and containerd 1.4.4. Users should update to these versions.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01947 · 80.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-668 · Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
Published
2021-03-10T21:30Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 MAR 21:30Z
    environment variable leak
    cvelistv5