It has been found that in openshift-enterprise version 3.11 and openshift-enterprise versions 4.1 up to, including 4.3, multiple containers modify the permissions of /etc/passwd to make them modifiable by users other than root. An attacker with access to the running container can exploit this to modify /etc/passwd to add a user and escalate their privileges. This CVE is specific to the openshift/apb-tools-container.

An insecure modification vulnerability in the /etc/passwd file was found in the container openshift/mysql-apb. An attacker with access to the container could use this flaw to modify /etc/passwd and escalate their privileges.

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Go GPGME wrapper library, github.com/proglottis/gpgme. An attacker could use this flaw to crash or cause potential code execution in Go applications that use this library, under certain conditions, during GPG signature verification.