Cri-o: large /etc/passwd file may lead to denial of service
13Vexday Risk Score
Sin señal de explotación. Ningún artefacto público de explotación conocido hasta ahora.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.7epss 0.2%
probabilidad de explotación
0.2%top 86% de las CVE
explotación observada
noninguna fuente lo reporta
There's a vulnerability in the CRI-O application where when container is launched with securityContext.runAsUser specifying a non-existent user, CRI-O attempts to create the user, reading the container's entire /etc/passwd file into memory. If this file is excessively large, it can cause the a high memory consumption leading applications to be killed due to out-of-memory. As a result a denial-of-service can be achieved, possibly disrupting other pods and services running in the same host.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Productos afectados
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4