Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input Affecting cri-o package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-CRIO-19256257
  • published25 Aug 2026
  • disclosed24 Aug 2026

Introduced: 24 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-17113  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 cri-o.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cri-o package and not the cri-o package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in CRI-O's container-creation environment-variable handling (mergeEnvs in server/utils.go, consumed by setupContainerEnvironmentAndWorkdir in server/container_create.go). When a CreateContainer request supplies a nil CRI Envs field, CRI-O falls back to using the target OCI image's config.Env entries unfiltered, in contrast to the normal merge path, which validates each entry for a key=value form before use. An OCI image whose config.Env contains an entry with no = character (e.g. a bare NOEQUALS string) causes CRI-O to split that entry into a single-element slice and then index its second element, which is out of range. This triggers an unrecovered Go runtime panic in the crio daemon process, crashing it and terminating the container-runtime service for all workloads on the node until it is restarted.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1