Medium severity · published Oct 15, 2024
CVE-2024-9676
Podman: buildah: cri-o: symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause denial of service (dos)
6.5
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A vulnerability was found in Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O. A symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O to hang and result in a denial of service via OOM kill when running a malicious image using an automatically assigned user namespace (`--userns=auto` in Podman and Buildah). The containers/storage library will read /etc/passwd inside the container, but does not properly validate if that file is a symlink, which can be used to cause the library to read an arbitrary file on the host.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 71% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OD
OpenShift Developer Tools and Services · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · 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 Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
Affected product
OD
OpenShift Developer Tools and Services
Red Hat
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