CVE-2026-92574

HIGHPre-NVD 8.88.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-21. A secondary CVSS source baseline 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
8.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.7%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A vulnerability in CRI-O checkpoint restore allows a user who can create a pod from a malicious checkpointed container to bypass the destination Kubernetes security context. The restored process may retain credentials, Linux capabilities, no_new_privs, and seccomp state from the checkpoint instead of enforcing the destination configuration. This can allow execution with elevated privileges across the container security boundary. Affected upstream supported versions are CRI-O 1.34 and later. Downstream Red Hat products are affected from OCP 4.17 onward. Fixes have been applied to supported branches but are not yet released. Exploitation requires permission to create a pod from a malicious checkpoint image and checkpoint restore functionality to be available.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
40
EG Risk 40/100CISA 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
Severity88% × 45%
Exploitation1% × 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
0.7%
EPSS %ILE
49th
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

October 1, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

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

2535436 – (CVE-2026-92574) CVE-2026-92574 cri-o: CRI-O checkpoint restore bypasses destination security context

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2535436
redhat Patch Available

CVE-2026-92574 - 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-2026-92574

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-92574(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 31× in last 7d / 59× 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. 2026-10-04 11:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-10-03 23:47 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-03 23:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-03 11:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-10-03 00:03 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-03 00:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-10-02 12:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-10-02 00:20 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-02 00:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-10-01 19:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-10-01 12:28 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-01 12:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-10-01 11:21 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-01 11:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-01 05:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-30 18:02 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-09-30 18:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-09-30 06:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-29 18:19 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-29 18:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-29 06:17 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-09-29 06:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-28 18:27 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-28 18:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-09-28 06:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-09-27 18:45 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-27 18:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-27 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-09-27 06:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-26 19:04 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-09-26 19:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-09-26 07:09 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-26 07:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-09-25 19:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-25 07:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-09-24 19:16 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-09-24 19:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-09-24 07:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-23 19:35 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-09-23 19:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-09-23 07:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-22 19:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-22 16:09 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-22 16:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-09-22 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  27. 2026-09-22 04:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-09-21 16:25 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-09-21 16:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-09-21 15:45 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-09-21 15:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-09-21 10:27 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-09-21 09:55 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-09-21 09:55 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-92574?
CVE-2026-92574 is a high vulnerability published on September 21, 2026. A vulnerability in CRI-O checkpoint restore allows a user who can create a pod from a malicious checkpointed container to bypass the destination Kubernetes security context. The restored process may retain credentials, Linux capabilities, nonewprivs, and seccomp state from the checkpoint instead of…
When was CVE-2026-92574 disclosed?
CVE-2026-92574 was first published on September 21, 2026, with the most recent update on October 1, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-92574 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-92574 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (49th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-92574?
CVE-2026-92574 has a CVSS base score of 8.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-92574?
A fix for CVE-2026-92574 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-92574 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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