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CVE-2019-19921

CVE Details

Visit the official vulnerability details page for CVE-2019-19921 to learn more.

Initial Publication

10/10/2025

Last Update

10/14/2025

Third Party Dependency

github.com/opencontainers/runc

NIST CVE Summary

runc 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 with custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom images. (This vulnerability does not affect Docker due to an implementation detail that happens to block the attack.)

CVE Severity

7

Our Official Summary

This vulnerability is a false positive. Although this is reported by the scanning tools on some of the components, further checks indicate the symbol/function with the vulnerability while present is not being used.

Status

Open

Affected Products & Versions

This CVE is non-impacting as the impacting symbol and/or function is not used in the product

Revision History

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