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Medium 5.1Published Aug 14, 2026

CVE-2026-47766crun follows rootfs /dev symlink while creating default devices

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It affects containers crun. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

crun is an open source OCI Container Runtime fully written in C. Prior to version 1.28, crun's default device setup opens the container rootfs `/dev` directory without `O_NOFOLLOW`. If an OCI bundle contains `rootfs/dev` as a symlink and the bundle configuration does not mount `/dev`, crun follows that symlink and creates the default device nodes and stdio symlinks at the symlink target outside the container rootfs. In a local rootful crun replay, this created fixed device nodes and symlinks outside the rootfs before crun returned failure. A pre-existing file named `ptmx` in the target directory was also replaced by crun's forced `ptmx -> pts/ptmx` symlink. Version 1.28 fixes the issue.

CVSS
5.1 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-61
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
GitHub_M
NVD analysis
Deferred
Record last updated
Aug 14, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
containers crun
containers:crun (from the name)
before 1.28
CNA record

References

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