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high advisory

Potential Chroot Container Escape via Mount

The rule detects a potential chroot container escape via mount, which involves a user within a container mounting the host's root file system and using chroot to escape the containerized environment, indicating a privilege escalation attempt.

Elastic Defend +2 container-escape privilege-escalation linux
2r
high advisory

Chroot Execution in Container Context on Linux

Detects suspicious chroot execution within a Linux container context, potentially indicating a container escape attempt by pivoting to an alternate root filesystem.

Elastic Defend +1 container-escape privilege-escalation linux chroot
2r 1t
critical advisory

LXD Backup Import Bypass Allows Privilege Escalation in Restricted Projects

A vulnerability in LXD allows an attacker with instance-creation rights in a restricted project to bypass project restrictions and escalate privileges by crafting a malicious backup archive.

lxd privilege-escalation container-escape cve-2026-34178
2r 1t
high advisory

Kata Containers CopyFile Policy Subversion via Symlinks

An oversight in the CopyFile policy in Kata Containers allows untrusted hosts to write to arbitrary locations inside the guest workload image via symlinks, enabling binary overwrites and data exfiltration.

kata-containers/kata-containers kata-containers container-escape symlink
3r 2t 1c
medium advisory

Suspicious Unshare Usage for Namespace Manipulation

The `unshare` command is used to create new namespaces in Linux, which can be exploited to break out of containers or elevate privileges by creating namespaces that bypass security controls.

Elastic Defend +3 privilege-escalation container-escape linux
2r 2t
medium advisory

Suspicious Unshare Usage for Container Escape and Privilege Escalation

The rule identifies suspicious usage of unshare to manipulate system namespaces, which can be utilized to escalate privileges or escape container security boundaries.

Elastic Defend for Containers privilege-escalation container-escape linux
2r 2t