CVE-2024-5154

Cri-o: malicious container can create symlink on host

State: Published
Severity: 8.1 High
Published: Jun 12, 2024
Updated: Oct 31, 2026
Reserved: May 20, 2024

Description

A flaw was found in cri-o. A malicious container can create a symbolic link to arbitrary files on the host via directory traversal (“../“). This flaw allows the container to read and write to arbitrary files on the host system.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
cri-o	1.30.0 to before 1.30.1Affected 1.29.4 to before 1.29.5Affected 1.28.6 to before 1.28.7Affected
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12Red Hat	0:1.25.5-21.2.rhaos4.12.gita3eb75f.el8 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13Red Hat	0:1.26.5-18.2.rhaos4.13.git2e90133.el8 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14Red Hat	0:1.27.7-3.rhaos4.14.git674563e.el8 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15Red Hat	0:1.28.7-2.rhaos4.15.git111aec5.el8 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16Red Hat	0:1.29.5-7.rhaos4.16.git7db4ada.el8 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16Red Hat	0:5.14.0-427.24.1.el9_4 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16Red Hat	0:4.16.0-202406191607.p0.g58452d8.assembly.stream.el8 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17Red Hat	417.94.202412040832-0 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11Red Hat

References

RHSA-2024:10818vendor-advisory
RHSA-2024:3676vendor-advisory
RHSA-2024:3700vendor-advisory
RHSA-2024:4008vendor-advisory
RHSA-2024:4159vendor-advisory
RHSA-2024:4486vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5154vdb-entry
RHBZ#2280190issue-tracking
https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/security/advisories/GHSA-j9hf-98c3-wrm8

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