CVE-2026-15801

HIGHPre-NVD 8.08.0—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 8.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-21. The CNA's CVSS baseline 8.0; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cna:redhat, epss, ghsa
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
8.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.3%CVSS: 8.0Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A vulnerability was found in CRI-O related to the container checkpoint and restore feature. When CRI-O is configured to restore containers from checkpoint archives, insufficient validation of restore metadata may allow a user with sufficient privileges to perform unintended operations on the host filesystem. Successful exploitation requires that container checkpoint and restore functionality is enabled, which is not the default configuration. An attacker must also be able to trigger restoration of a container from untrusted checkpoint content.

CVSS v3
8.0
EG Score
8.0HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
36
EG Risk 36/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity80% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
22nd
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

September 21, 2026

Last Modified

September 28, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Sep 21, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
redhat

2500823 – (CVE-2026-15801) CVE-2026-15801 cri-o: cri-o: Insufficient validation during container checkpoint restore

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2500823
redhat Patch Available

CVE-2026-15801 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-15801

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-15801(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 30× in last 7d / 63× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-05 06:41 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-05 06:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-04 23:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-10-04 18:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-10-04 06:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-03 18:48 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-03 18:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-10-03 06:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-10-02 18:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-10-02 18:17 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-02 18:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-10-02 18:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-10-02 06:17 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-02 06:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-10-01 18:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-10-01 06:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-30 18:14 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-09-30 18:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-09-30 06:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-29 18:23 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-29 18:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-09-29 15:20 UTCEPSS rescore
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  1. 2026-09-29 06:31 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-09-29 06:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-28 18:38 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-09-28 18:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-09-28 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-09-28 06:45 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-28 06:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-27 18:50 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-09-27 18:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-27 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-09-27 06:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-09-26 19:05 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-09-26 19:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-26 15:58 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-09-26 07:10 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-09-26 07:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-25 19:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-09-25 07:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-24 19:24 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-09-24 19:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-24 07:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-23 19:38 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-09-23 19:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-23 07:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-09-22 19:53 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-09-22 19:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  27. 2026-09-22 19:33 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-09-22 19:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  29. 2026-09-22 17:38 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-09-22 17:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  31. 2026-09-22 16:25 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-09-22 16:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  33. 2026-09-22 09:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  34. 2026-09-21 21:19 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-09-21 21:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-09-21 09:26 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-09-21 08:33 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-09-21 08:30 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-15801?
CVE-2026-15801 is a high vulnerability published on September 21, 2026. A vulnerability was found in CRI-O related to the container checkpoint and restore feature. When CRI-O is configured to restore containers from checkpoint archives, insufficient validation of restore metadata may allow a user with sufficient privileges to perform unintended operations on the host…
When was CVE-2026-15801 disclosed?
CVE-2026-15801 was first published on September 21, 2026, with the most recent update on September 28, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-15801 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-15801 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (22nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-15801?
CVE-2026-15801 has a CVSS base score of 8.0 (the CNA's own assessment, by redhat; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-15801?
A fix for CVE-2026-15801 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-15801 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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