CVE-2025-65105
Apptainer ineffective application of selinux and apparmor --security options
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
Apptainer is an open source container platform. In Apptainer versions less than 1.4.5, a container can disable two of the forms of the little used --security option, in particular the forms --security=apparmor:<profile> and --security=selinux:<label> which otherwise put restrictions on operations that containers can do. The --security option has always been mentioned in Apptainer documentation as being a feature for the root user, although these forms do also work for unprivileged users on systems where the corresponding feature is enabled. Apparmor is enabled by default on Debian-based distributions and SElinux is enabled by default on RHEL-based distributions, but on SUSE it depends on the distribution version. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.5.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 15 days later
· 15 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.25% · top 84% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.5.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/apptainer/apptainerGHSA-j3rw-fx6g-q46j (opens in a new tab)
References (6)
- https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/security/advisories/GHSA-j3rw-fx6g-q46j (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-cgrx-mc8f-2prm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/security/advisories/GHSA-wwrx-w7c9-rf87 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/pull/3226 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/commit/4313b42717e18a4add7dd7503528bc15af905981 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/commit/82f17900a0c31bc769bf9b4612d271c7068d8bf2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-j3rw-fx6g-q46j (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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