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Github.com/opencontainers/runc

16 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Github.com/opencontainers/runc, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

Github.com/opencontainers/runc CVEs per month

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
Github.com/opencontainers/runc CVEs per month
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Severity

How the 16 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.

  • High960%
  • Medium533%
  • Low17%

Latest CVEs

The 15 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Github.com/opencontainers/runc.

  1. CVE-2025-52881runc: LSM labels can be bypassed with malicious config using dummy procfs files7.5
  2. CVE-2025-52565container escape due to /dev/console mount and related races7.5
  3. CVE-2025-31133runc container escape via "masked path" abuse due to mount race conditions7.8
  4. CVE-2024-45310runc can be confused to create empty files/directories on the host3.6
  5. CVE-2024-21626runc container breakout through process.cwd trickery and leaked fds8.6
  6. CVE-2023-25809rootless: `/sys/fs/cgroup` is writable when cgroupns isn't unshared in runc5.0
  7. CVE-2023-28642AppArmor bypass with symlinked /proc in runc6.1
  8. CVE-2023-27561runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with ...7.0
  9. CVE-2022-29162Incorrect Default Permissions in runc5.9
  10. GHSA-g54h-m393-cpwqdevices resource list treated as a blacklist by default—
  11. CVE-2021-43784Overflow in netlink bytemsg length field allows attacker to override netlink-based container configuration6.0
  12. CVE-2021-30465runc before 1.0.0-rc95 allows a Container Filesystem Breakout via Directory Traversal. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker must be able to create multiple containers with a fairly specific mo...8.5
  13. CVE-2019-19921runc through 1.0.0-rc9 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers w...7.0
  14. CVE-2019-16884runc through 1.0.0-rc8, as used in Docker through 19.03.2-ce and other products, allows AppArmor restriction bypass because libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go incorrectly checks mount targets, and thus a...7.5
  15. CVE-2016-9962RunC allowed additional container processes via 'runc exec' to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the container, if running as root, to gain access to file...6.4

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