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TI-2025-40257 Aliases CVE-2025-65105GHSA-j3rw-fx6g-q46j

Apptainer ineffective application of selinux and apparmor --security options

Priority LOW 24CWE-61Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · Low · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00249 16th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed apptainer (apptainer): 1.4.5github.com/apptainer/apptainer (Go): 1.4.5

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
MLflowapptainerbefore 1.4.51.4.5Patch availableCNA
—github.com/apptainer/apptainer (Go)before 1.4.51.4.5Patch availableGHSA-j3rw-fx6g-q46j
  • apptainer VendorMLflow Affected before 1.4.5 Fixed in 1.4.5 Patch available CNA
  • github.com/apptainer/apptainer (Go) Vendor— Affected before 1.4.5 Fixed in 1.4.5 Patch available GHSA-j3rw-fx6g-q46j

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:lfprojects:apptainer:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*before 1.4.5VulnerableMLflow
  • cpe:2.3:a:lfprojects:apptainer:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:* Versions before 1.4.5 Vulnerable ·MLflow

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA apptainer (apptainer) Fixed in 1.4.5
  • Fix · GHSA-j3rw-fx6g-q46j github.com/apptainer/apptainer (Go) Fixed in 1.4.5 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-65105
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-j3rw-fx6g-q46j

References

Patch 3

Advisory 1

Other 4

  • TI-2023-14384 Unpatched extfs vulnerabilities are exploitable through suid-mode Apptainer CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
  • TI-2023-19876 Apptainer's ineffective privileges drop when requesting container network CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1

Sources

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