High severity · published Aug 2, 2024
CVE-2024-3056
Podman: kernel: containers in shared ipc namespace are vulnerable to denial of service attack
7.7
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in Podman. This issue may allow an attacker to create a specially crafted container that, when configured to share the same IPC with at least one other container, can create a large number of IPC resources in /dev/shm. The malicious container will continue to exhaust resources until it is out-of-memory (OOM) killed. While the malicious container's cgroup will be removed, the IPC resources it created are not. Those resources are tied to the IPC namespace that will not be removed until all containers using it are stopped, and one non-malicious container is holding the namespace open. The malicious container is restarted, either automatically or by attacker control, repeating the process and increasing the amount of memory consumed. With a container configured to restart always, such as `podman run --restart=always`, this can result in a memory-based denial of service of the system.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 46% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
40 · source: NVD
OC
Openshift Container Platform · Redhat
4.0 · source: NVD
PO
Podman · Podman Project
through 5.2.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3056
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3056
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3056
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270717
security.netapp.com
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241227-0002/
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