CVE-2024-5154

Cri-o: malicious container can create symlink on host

HIGH 8.1

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 1.24 % · percentile 69 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2024-06-12 08:51 UTC
Updated: 2026-08-21 12:08 UTC
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Modified

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22 — Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	redhat
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

Advisories

GHSA-j9hf-98c3-wrm8 — malicious container creates symlink "mtab" on the host External
GO-2024-2919 — malicious container creates symlink "mtab" on the host External in github.com/cri-o/cri-o

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-2089
GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-5154

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:cri-o:1.28.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:cri-o:1.29.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:cri-o:1.30.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
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
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD