8.1 High

A flaw was found in cri-o.

CVE-2024-5154

A flaw was found in cri-o. A malicious container can create a symbolic link to arbitrary files on the host via directory traversal (“../“). This flaw allows the container to read and write to arbitrary files on the host system.

Assessment

CVSS: 8.1 (v3.1)
Severity: High
EPSS: 1.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Known exploited: Not listed in CISA KEV
Exploit availability: Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
Published: 12 June 2024
Last updated: 31 October 2026
Affected: Red Hat
Assigner: redhat

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

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