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

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

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/13/2024
Created
06/14/2024
Added
06/13/2024
Modified
12/12/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-cri-o
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-rhcos

References

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