CVE-2024-9676CWE-22

Podman: buildah: cri-o: symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause denial of service (dos)

Medium · published October 15, 2024

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
71.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01336 · 71.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2024-10-15T15:27Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 OCT 15:27Z
    Podman: buildah: cri-o: symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause denial of service (dos)
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