vulnerability

Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2024-5154: cri-o: malicious container can create symlink on host

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
Jun 13, 2024
Added
Jun 13, 2024
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

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.

Solutions

linuxrpm-upgrade-cri-olinuxrpm-upgrade-rhcos
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