GHSA-8f93-j3fx-72f3MediumCVSS 5.7
CRI-O has Potential High Memory Consumption from File Read
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
There's a vulnerability in the CRI-O application where when container is launched with securityContext.runAsUser specifying a non-existent user, CRI-O attempts to create the user, reading the container's entire /etc/passwd file into memory. If this file is excessively large, it can cause the a high memory consumption leading applications to be killed due to out-of-memory. As a result a denial-of-service can be achieved, possibly disrupting other pods and services running in the same host.
🎯 Affected products1
- go/github.com/cri-o/cri-o:<= 1.33.3