The flaw basically allows an infected container to gain control of the overarching host container and allow an attacker to execute any command.

A fundamental component of container technologies like Docker, cri-o, containerd and Kubernetes contains an important vulnerability that could cause cascading attacks. Runc, a building-block project ...

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A container breakout security flaw found in the runc container runtime allows malicious containers (with minimal user interaction) to overwrite the host runc binary and gain root-level code execution ...

A security vulnerability in Docker and Kubernetes containers disclosed Monday can be used to go after any host system running containers. The vulnerability allows malicious containers to overwrite the ...