CVE-2022-23471CWE-400

containerd CRI stream server: Host memory exhaustion through terminal resize goroutine leak

Medium · published December 7, 2022

CVSS v3.1
5.7
EPSS
1%
Percentile
65.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

containerd is an open source container runtime. A bug was found in containerd's CRI implementation where a user can exhaust memory on the host. In the CRI stream server, a goroutine is launched to handle terminal resize events if a TTY is requested. If the user's process fails to launch due to, for example, a faulty command, the goroutine will be stuck waiting to send without a receiver, resulting in a memory leak. Kubernetes and crictl can both be configured to use containerd's CRI implementation and the stream server is used for handling container IO. This bug has been fixed in containerd 1.6.12 and 1.5.16. Users should update to these versions to resolve the issue. Users unable to upgrade should ensure that only trusted images and commands are used and that only trusted users have permissions to execute commands in running containers.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01109 · 65.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2022-12-07T22:51Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 DEC 22:51Z
    containerd CRI stream server: Host memory exhaustion through terminal resize goroutine leak
    cvelistv5