Vulnerability record/PUBLISHED/Published Oct 15, 2024 15:27:33 UTC

CVE-2024-9676

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.

Base score6.5/ 10

SeverityMediumCVSS 3.1

Exploitability / impact

CVSS metric breakdown

Vector-derived attributes

Base severityMedium

Attack vectorNetworkAV

Attack complexityLowAC

Privileges requiredLowPR

User interactionNoneUI

ScopeUnchangedS

Confidentiality impactNoneC

Integrity impactNoneI

Availability impactHighA

CVSS vector stringCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Record context

CVE Numbering Authorityredhat

Last updatedNov 1, 2026 05:12:42 UTC

PublishedOct 15, 2024 15:27:33 UTC

ReservedOct 9, 2024 03:02:48 UTC

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Erik Sjölund (Upstream) for reporting this issue.