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Directory Traversal Affecting podman package, versions <4:4.9.4-16.el9_4

Severity

 Recommended
high

Based on Rocky Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ROCKY9-PODMAN-8399669
  • published 20 Nov 2024
  • disclosed 15 Oct 2024
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Introduced: 15 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-9676 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-22 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:9 podman to version 4:4.9.4-16.el9_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2024:9051.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream podman package and not the podman package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

A vulnerability was found in Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O. A symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O to hang and result in a denial of service via OOM kill when running a malicious image using an automatically assigned user namespace (--userns=auto in Podman and Buildah). The containers/storage library will read /etc/passwd inside the container, but does not properly validate if that file is a symlink, which can be used to cause the library to read an arbitrary file on the host.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

6.5 medium
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SUSE

4.7 medium