Podman: kernel: containers in shared ipc namespace are vulnerable to denial of service attack (podman)

CVE-2024-3056
HIGH 7.7

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.53 % · percentile 45 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Modified

Description

A flaw was found in Podman. This issue may allow an attacker to create a specially crafted container that, when configured to share the same IPC with at least one other container, can create a large number of IPC resources in /dev/shm. The malicious container will continue to exhaust resources until it is out-of-memory (OOM) killed. While the malicious container's cgroup will be removed, the IPC resources it created are not. Those resources are tied to the IPC namespace that will not be removed until all containers using it are stopped, and one non-malicious container is holding the namespace open. The malicious container is restarted, either automatically or by attacker control, repeating the process and increasing the amount of memory consumed. With a container configured to restart always, such as `podman run --restart=always`, this can result in a memory-based denial of service of the system.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:Hredhat
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:HNVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Secondary)

Advisories

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
podmanaffected 5.0.0
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD