Bug 2543892 - CVE-2026-62146 cri-o1.34: cri-o: Sandbox state poisoning via pod annotations may expose runtime socket [fedora-43]
Summary: CVE-2026-62146 cri-o1.34: cri-o: Sandbox state poisoning via pod annotations ...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cri-o1.34
Version: 43
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Brad Smith
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Blocks: CVE-2026-62146
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Reported: 2026-09-30 11:57 UTC by Yadnyawalk Tale
Modified: 2026-11-10 19:56 UTC (History)
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Description Yadnyawalk Tale 2026-09-30 11:57:54 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

A flaw was found in CRI-O. CRI-O persists reserved internal sandbox metadata alongside untrusted pod-supplied annotations without adequate separation, allowing a crafted pod annotation to overwrite that reserved state before it is saved to disk; after a CRI-O restart or node reboot, this poisoned value is reloaded as trusted and used by a later container recreate in the same sandbox, which can result in a host-side runtime-management resource being bind-mounted into the container. A container that gains access to this resource may be able to direct the runtime to act with host privileges, resulting in container escape and full node compromise. This does not require a privileged pod, hostPath, or a custom RuntimeClass, only the ability to create a pod plus a subsequent runtime restart/recreate.

Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2026-11-10 19:56:25 UTC
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