Red Hat Enterprise Linux/OpenShift Container Platform cri-o improper authorization

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift Container Platform. This affects an unknown function of the component cri-o. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-8676. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift Container Platform (affected version unknown). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component cri-o. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability was found in CRI-O, where it can be requested to take a checkpoint archive of a container and later be asked to restore it. When it does that restoration, it attempts to restore the mounts from the restore archive instead of the pod request. As a result, the validations run on the pod spec, verifying that the pod has access to the mounts it specifies are not applicable to a restored container. This flaw allows a malicious user to trick CRI-O into restoring a pod that doesn't have access to host mounts. The user needs access to the kubelet or cri-o socket to call the restore endpoint and trigger the restore.

The advisory is shared at access.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-8676 since 09/10/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/02/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1548.002 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 214789 (RHEL 8 / 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.44 (RHSA-2025:0648)), 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 (214789) and EUVD (EUVD-2024-3348). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• Operating System

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• Red Hat

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• Enterprise Linux
• OpenShift Container Platform

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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