containers/storage · denial of service
cve-program · CVE-2024-9676
PublishedA 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.
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CVE-2024-9676 · CVE overview and exploitation status
cve-program · CVE-2024-9676
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2024:6126
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10289
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8418
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8428
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8437
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8686
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8690
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8694
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8700
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8984
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9051
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9454
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9459
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9926
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0876
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2454
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2710
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3301
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-9676
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317467
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wq2p-5pc6-wpgf
- https://github.com/containers/storage/commit/935c58f4b3e364a9c9d33ed06476a831e6ad5679
Related changes
Linked by CVE identifier- Podman: buildah: cri-o: symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause denial of service (dos) · Affected-version evidence changed · 5 Nov 2026
- Podman: buildah: cri-o: symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause denial of service (dos) · Affected-version evidence changed · 30 Oct 2026