youki container escape and denial of service due to arbitrary write gadgets and procfs write redirects
### 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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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-62596US | critical10.0 | — | ||
Youki is a container runtime written in Rust. In versions 0.5.6 and below, youki’s apparmor handling performs insufficiently strict write-target validation, and when combined with… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-cgrx-mc8f-2prmWEB
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youkiPACKAGE
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/commit/5886c91073b9be748bd8d5aed49c4a820548030aWEB
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/security/advisories/GHSA-vf95-55w6-qmrfWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62596ADVISORY
- https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin/pathrs-lite/procfsWEB
- https://youtu.be/tGseJW_uBB8WEB
- https://youtu.be/y1PaBzxwRWQWEB
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