Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services path traversal

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services, Enterprise Linux, OpenShift Container Platform and Quay. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation results in path traversal. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-9676. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services, Enterprise Linux, OpenShift Container Platform and Quay (the affected version unknown). Affected is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-9676 since 10/09/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 07/23/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 209813 (SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : buildah (SUSE-SU-2024:3754-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (209813) and EUVD (EUVD-2024-50452). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• Operating System

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• Red Hat

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• Enterprise Linux
• OpenShift Container Platform
• OpenShift Developer Tools and Services
• Quay

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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