CVE-2024-5154
Cri-o: malicious container can create symlink on host
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Weakness
Affected products
cri-o
- affected 1.30.0 – < 1.30.1
- affected 1.29.4 – < 1.29.5
- affected 1.28.6 – < 1.28.7
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12
- unaffected 0:1.25.5-21.2.rhaos4.12.gita3eb75f.el8 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13
- unaffected 0:1.26.5-18.2.rhaos4.13.git2e90133.el8 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14
- unaffected 0:1.27.7-3.rhaos4.14.git674563e.el8 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15
- unaffected 0:1.28.7-2.rhaos4.15.git111aec5.el8 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
- unaffected 0:1.29.5-7.rhaos4.16.git7db4ada.el8 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
- unaffected 0:5.14.0-427.24.1.el9_4 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
- unaffected 0:4.16.0-202406191607.p0.g58452d8.assembly.stream.el8 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17
- unaffected 417.94.202412040832-0 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
All versions: unaffected
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
All versions: unaffected
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11
All versions: unknown
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/cri-o/cri-oGHSA-j9hf-98c3-wrm8 (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Workaround: There is no mitigation available for this vulnerability, a package update is required.
References (9)
- RHSA-2024:10818 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2024:3676 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2024:3700 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2024:4008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2024:4159 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2024:4486 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5154 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHBZ#2280190 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/security/advisories/GHSA-j9hf-98c3-wrm8 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-j9hf-98c3-wrm8 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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