CVE-2024-9676
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 1.3% (71th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2024-50452)
- Published
- October 15, 2024
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2024-50452 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on April 24, 2026.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux eus
- redhat / enterprise linux for arm 64
- redhat / enterprise linux for arm 64 eus
- redhat / enterprise linux for ibm z systems
- redhat / enterprise linux for ibm z systems eus
- redhat / enterprise linux for power little endian
- redhat / enterprise linux for power little endian eus
- redhat / enterprise linux server aus
- redhat / enterprise linux server for power little endian update services for sap solutions
- redhat / openshift container platform
- redhat / openshift container platform
- redhat / openshift container platform
- redhat / openshift container platform
- redhat / openshift container platform
- redhat / openshift container platform
- redhat / openshift container platform for arm64
- redhat / openshift container platform for arm64
- redhat / openshift container platform for arm64
- redhat / openshift container platform for arm64
- redhat / openshift container platform for arm64
- redhat / openshift container platform for ibm z
- redhat / openshift container platform for ibm z
- redhat / openshift container platform for ibm z
- redhat / openshift container platform for ibm z
- redhat / openshift container platform for ibm z
- redhat / openshift container platform for linuxone
- redhat / openshift container platform for linuxone
- redhat / openshift container platform for linuxone
- redhat / openshift container platform for linuxone
- redhat / openshift container platform for linuxone
- redhat / openshift container platform for power
- redhat / openshift container platform for power
- redhat / openshift container platform for power
- redhat / openshift container platform for power
- redhat / openshift container platform for power
Certified products that may be affected
9 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Kernel Cryptographic API - Red Hat, Inc. - FIPS 140 5445 - active
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 libgcrypt - Red Hat, Inc. - FIPS 140 5366 - active
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Kernel Cryptographic API - Red Hat, Inc. - FIPS 140 5034 - active
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 NSS Cryptographic Module - Red Hat, Inc - FIPS 140 5022 - active
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 - Red Hat, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-11526-2025 - active
See all 9 in the Security Certifications Explorer.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10289
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8418(Vendor Advisory)
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8428(Vendor Advisory)
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8437(Vendor Advisory)
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8686(Vendor Advisory)
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8690(Vendor Advisory)
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8694(Vendor Advisory)
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8700(Vendor Advisory)
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8984(Vendor Advisory)
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9051(Vendor Advisory)
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9454(Vendor Advisory)
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9459(Vendor Advisory)
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9926(Vendor Advisory)
- 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(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317467(Issue Tracking)
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wq2p-5pc6-wpgf(Third Party Advisory)
- https://github.com/containers/storage/commit/935c58f4b3e364a9c9d33ed06476a831e6ad5679
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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