Buildkit's interactive containers API does not validate entitlements check
Package
Affected versions
< 0.12.5
Patched versions
0.12.5
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jan 31, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Jan 31, 2024
Reviewed
Jan 31, 2024
Last updated
May 20, 2024
Impact
In addition to running containers as build steps, BuildKit also provides APIs for running interactive containers based on built images. It was possible to use these APIs to ask BuildKit to run a container with elevated privileges. Normally, running such containers is only allowed if special
security.insecure
entitlement is enabled both by buildkitd configuration and allowed by the user initializing the build request.Patches
The issue has been fixed in v0.12.5 .
Workarounds
Avoid using BuildKit frontends from untrusted sources. A frontend image is usually specified as the
#syntax
line on your Dockerfile, or with--frontend
flag when usingbuildctl build
command.References
References