GHSA-vf95-55w6-qmrf
youki container escape and denial of service due to arbitrary write gadgets and procfs write redirects
Details
### Impact ###
youki’s apparmor handling performs insufficiently strict write-target validation, which—combined with path substitution during pathname resolution—can allow writes to unintended procfs locations.
**Weak write-target check** youki only verifies that the destination lies somewhere under procfs. As a result, a write intended for `/proc/self/attr/apparmor/exec` can succeed even if the path has been redirected to `/proc/sys/kernel/hostname`(which is also in procfs).
**Path substitution** While resolving a path component-by-component, a shared-mount race can substitute intermediate components and redirect the final target.
This is a different project, but the core logic is similar to the CVE in runc. Issues were identified in runc, and verification was also conducted in youki to confirm the problems. https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-cgrx-mc8f-2prm
### Credits ###
Thanks to Li Fubang (@lifubang from acmcoder.com, CIIC) and Tõnis Tiigi (@tonistiigi from Docker) for both independently discovering runc's original vulnerability, as well as Aleksa Sarai (@cyphar from SUSE) for the original research into this class of security issues and solutions.
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Affected packages
0Fixed in: 0.5.7Upgrade youki to 0.5.7 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).
References
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-cgrx-mc8f-2prm[WEB]
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/security/advisories/GHSA-vf95-55w6-qmrf[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62596[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/commit/5886c91073b9be748bd8d5aed49c4a820548030a[WEB]
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki[PACKAGE]
- https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin/pathrs-lite/procfs[WEB]
- https://youtu.be/tGseJW_uBB8[WEB]
- https://youtu.be/y1PaBzxwRWQ[WEB]