CVE-2026-53489highCWE-61

CVE-2026-53489: high-severity vulnerability in containerd

containerd: Arbitrary host CRI log file read via symlink following in CRI checkpoint restore

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21Vexday Risk Score

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ssvc Trackcvss 8.2epss 0.2%
containerd is an open-source container runtime. Versions prior to 2.3.2, 2.2.5 and 2.1.9 contain a bug where the CRI plugin restores container.log from a checkpoint image without validating a symlinked path. This could result in reading an arbitrary file on the host via kubectl logs. This issue has been fixed in versions 2.3.2, 2.2.5 and 2.1.9.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
containerd · containerd
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