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CVE-2024-5154

high

A flaw was found in cri-o.

Vendor / product: Kubernetes — cri-o

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.

CVSS
8.1
8.1 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (secalert@redhat.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2024-06-12 09:15
Modified: 2026-11-04 22:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 5 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-04 22:37 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

kubernetes / cri-o 1.28.6, 1.29.4, 1.30.0
redhat / openshift_container_platform 3.11, 4.0, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3676
Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3700
Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4008
Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4486
Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5154
Vendor advisory: https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/security/advisories/GHSA-j9hf-98c3-wrm8
Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3676
Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3700
Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4008
Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4486

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-04 22:37 UTC · record ↗

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