Symlink Attack Affecting github.com/containers/storage package, versions <1.51.1>=1.52.0 <1.55.1
Threat Intelligence
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- published18 Oct 2024
- disclosed17 Oct 2024
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 17 Oct 2024
CVE-2024-9676 Â (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade github.com/containers/storage to version 1.51.1, 1.55.1 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack due to not properly validating if the file is a symlink, when reading /etc/passwd inside the container. This happens via OOM kill when running a malicious image using an automatically assigned user namespace.
Note: This affects Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O.