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CVE-2024-9676

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-9676 describes a symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library affecting Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O. An attacker can craft a malicious container image that, when run with automatically assigned user namespaces, can cause a denial of service (OOM kill) by making the host hang. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low privileges and high availability impact. There is currently no public exploit code available, it is not on the KEV catalog, and community discussion and media coverage are minimal, suggesting limited active exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0134 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 21,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (38)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19858-17086Fixed in: 1.14.2-9
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17606-17084Fixed in: 1.14.4-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19935-17084Fixed in: 1.14.4-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19777-17086Fixed in: 1.22.3-14
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 cri-o 1.22.3-14 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 1.22.3-14
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 skopeo 1.14.4-5 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 1.14.4-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 skopeo 1.14.4-3 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 1.14.4-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 skopeo 1.14.2-10 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 1.14.2-9
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 skopeo 1.14.2-9 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 1.14.2-9
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 x64Fixed in: 1.14.2-9
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 ARMFixed in: 1.14.2-9
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17216-16823Fixed in: 1.14.2-9
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16Fixed in: cri-o-0:1.29.9-6.rhaos4.16.gite7bd45a.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16Fixed in: podman-4:4.9.4-12.rhaos4.16.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16Fixed in: openshift4/ose-docker-builder-rhel9:v4.16.0-202503121138.p0.g31c3c26.assembly.stream.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17Fixed in: cri-o-0:1.30.6-6.rhaos4.17.git6ac6e96.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17Fixed in: podman-5:5.2.2-1.rhaos4.17.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17Fixed in: openshift4/ose-docker-builder-rhel9:v4.17.0-202501281204.p0.ga753153.assembly.stream.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: container-tools:rhel8-8100020241101101019.afee755d
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: podman-4:4.9.4-16.el9_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: podman-4:5.2.2-9.el9_5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: buildah-2:1.37.5-1.el9_5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update SupportFixed in: buildah-2:1.33.11-1.el9_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12Fixed in: cri-o-0:1.25.5-30.rhaos4.12.git53dc492.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13Fixed in: cri-o-0:1.26.5-26.rhaos4.13.giteb3d487.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14Fixed in: cri-o-0:1.27.8-12.rhaos4.14.git7597c43.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14Fixed in: openshift4/ose-docker-builder:v4.14.0-202503060906.p0.gb03f3f5.assembly.stream.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15Fixed in: cri-o-0:1.28.11-5.rhaos4.15.git35a2431.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15Fixed in: openshift4/ose-docker-builder:v4.15.0-202503060734.p0.gbc0b789.assembly.stream.el8
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redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Developer Tools and ServicesFixed in: ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Developer Tools and ServicesFixed in: jenkins-agent-base-rhel9-container
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Developer Tools and ServicesFixed in: ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Quay 3Fixed in: quay/quay-builder-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: skopeo
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: skopeo
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Fixed in: podman
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Fixed in: buildah

Vendor Advisories (3)

microsoft2024-Nov/CVE-2024-9676

CVE-2024-9676

Nov 12, 2024
redhatCVE-2024-9676Moderate

Podman: Buildah: CRI-O: symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause Denial of Service (DoS)

Oct 15, 2024
microsoft2024-Oct/CVE-2024-9676Moderate

Podman: buildah: cri-o: symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause denial of service (dos)

Oct 8, 2024

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:10289
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:8418
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:8428
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:8437
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:8686
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:8690
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:8694
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:8700
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:8984
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:9051
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:9454
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:9459
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:9926
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2025:0876
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2025:2454
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2025:2710
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2025:3301
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2024-9676
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
github.com / advisories/GHSA-wq2p-5pc6-wpgf
Third Party Advisory
github.com / containers/storage/commit/935c58f4b3e364a9c9d33ed06476a831e6ad5679