VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-9676

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.34%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-10-15
Last modified2026-10-30
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-22

Primary references