Cri-o: malicious container can create symlink on host
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.1epss 1.2%
exploitation probability
1.2%top 32% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in cri-o. A malicious container can create a symbolic link to arbitrary files on the host via directory traversal (“../“). This flaw allows the container to read and write to arbitrary files on the host system.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected products
cri-oRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10818https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3676https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3700https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4008https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4159https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4486https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5154https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280190https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/security/advisories/GHSA-j9hf-98c3-wrm8