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High 7.7Published Aug 2, 2024

CVE-2024-3056Podman: kernel: containers in shared ipc namespace are vulnerable to denial of service attack

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It affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and 4 other products. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

A flaw was found in Podman. This issue may allow an attacker to create a specially crafted container that, when configured to share the same IPC with at least one other container, can create a large number of IPC resources in /dev/shm. The malicious container will continue to exhaust resources until it is out-of-memory (OOM) killed. While the malicious container's cgroup will be removed, the IPC resources it created are not. Those resources are tied to the IPC namespace that will not be removed until all containers using it are stopped, and one non-malicious container is holding the namespace open. The malicious container is restarted, either automatically or by attacker control, repeating the process and increasing the amount of memory consumed. With a container configured to restart always, such as `podman run --restart=always`, this can result in a memory-based denial of service of the system.

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CVSS
7.7 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
redhat
NVD analysis
Modified
Record last updated
Oct 29, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 29, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
10
CNA record
3.11
CNA record
podman_project podman
podman_project:podman
through 5.2.0
NVD
redhat openshift_container_platform
redhat:openshift_container_platform
4.0
NVD
redhat enterprise_linux
redhat:enterprise_linux
8.0; 9.0
NVD
fedoraproject fedora
fedoraproject:fedora
40
NVD

References

References

The CVE record is authoritative. Products marked “from the name” were identified from the CNA's free-text names, not a CPE, and are matched less certainly. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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