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Medium 6.5Published Oct 15, 2024

CVE-2024-9676Podman: buildah: cri-o: symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause denial of service (dos)

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It affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 19 other products. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

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.

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CVSS
6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
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
Nov 1, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 30, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
redhat:enterprise_linux
from 8100020241101101019.afee755d not affected
CNA record
from 2:1.33.11-1.el9_4 not affected
CNA record
from 0:1.25.5-30.rhaos4.12.git53dc492.el8 not affected
CNA record
from 0:1.25.5-30.rhaos4.12.git53dc492.el8 not affected
CNA record
all versions status unknown
CNA record
all versions status unknown
CNA record
redhat openshift_container_platform
redhat:openshift_container_platform
4.12; 4.13; 4.14; 4.15; 4.16; 4.17
NVD
redhat openshift_container_platform_for_arm64
redhat:openshift_container_platform_for_arm64
4.12; 4.13; 4.14; 4.15; 4.16
NVD
redhat openshift_container_platform_for_ibm_z
redhat:openshift_container_platform_for_ibm_z
4.12; 4.13; 4.14; 4.15; 4.16
NVD
redhat openshift_container_platform_for_linuxone
redhat:openshift_container_platform_for_linuxone
4.12; 4.13; 4.14; 4.15; 4.16
NVD

References

References

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