Cri-o: cri-o: sandbox state poisoning via pod annotations may expose runtime socket
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 | affected |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | affected | — |
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| Redhat | Openshift Container Platform |
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Vendor Workaround
There is no complete workaround; until a fix is available, administrators should restrict who can create/update pods and set arbitrary annotations via RBAC/admission policy, minimize unnecessary CRI-O restarts or node reboots and monitor for anomalous container mounts (e.g. under /dev/shm) following runtime restarts, then apply the vendor patch once released.
No CVSS v4.0
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.170% probability within 30 days)
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Redhat openshift Container Platform
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Redhat openshift Container Platform
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:5 |
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.16::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.16::el9 |
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| Description | A trust-boundary flaw in CRI-O's sandbox state persistence allows attacker-influenced pod metadata to overwrite CRI-O's own reserved sandbox bookkeeping; once reloaded as trusted after a restart, a later container recreate in that sandbox can expose a host-side runtime-management resource inside the container, enabling container escape. | |
| Title | Cri-o: cri-o: sandbox state poisoning via pod annotations may expose runtime socket | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat openshift |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-501 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4 | |
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Redhat
Redhat openshift |
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cvssV3_1
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