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

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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-9676

Affected Products

Vendor: Red Hat

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.11% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 45.69% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-03 (when was this score calculated)

References

Timeline

2024-11-27 14:42:11 UTC
CVE

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