vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2024-8676: cri-o: Checkpoint restore can be triggered from different namespaces
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N) | Nov 26, 2024 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 |
Description
A vulnerability was found in CRI-O, where it can be requested to take a checkpoint archive of a container and later be asked to restore it. When it does that restoration, it attempts to restore the mounts from the restore archive instead of the pod request. As a result, the validations run on the pod spec, verifying that the pod has access to the mounts it specifies are not applicable to a restored container. This flaw allows a malicious user to trick CRI-O into restoring a pod that doesn't have access to host mounts. The user needs access to the kubelet or cri-o socket to call the restore endpoint and trigger the restore.
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