Medium [CVE-2024-9676] Podman: buildah: cri-o: symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause denial of service (dos)
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2024-9676 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.
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Summary
A vulnerability was found in Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O. The containers/storage library will read /etc/passwd inside the container, but does not properly validate if that file is a symlink, which can be used to cause the library to read an arbitrary file on the host.
Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 6.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). Weakness: CWE-22.
Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17; OpenShift Developer Tools and Services; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4; Red Hat Quay 3.
Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2024:10289, RHSA-2024:9051, RHSA-2024:9454, RHSA-2024:9459, RHSA-2024:9926, RHSA-2024:8694, RHSA-2024:8690, RHSA-2024:8700, RHSA-2025:2710, RHSA-2024:8428, RHSA-2025:2454, RHSA-2024:8418, RHSA-2024:8686, RHSA-2025:3301, RHSA-2024:8437, RHSA-2024:8984, RHSA-2025:0876.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: podman; Red Hat package: buildah; Red Hat package: skopeo.
Is CVE-2024-9676 exploited?
No exploitation is reported in the sources VulniPulse tracks: CVE-2024-9676 is not in the CISA KEV catalog (checked ) and this advisory does not report exploitation. That is not proof the vulnerability cannot be exploited.
How do I fix CVE-2024-9676?
Upgrade to a fixed release named by Red Hat:
- container-tools:rhel8-8100020241101101019.afee755d
- podman-4:4.9.4-16.el9_4
- podman-4:5.2.2-9.el9_5
- buildah-2:1.37.5-1.el9_5
- buildah-2:1.33.11-1.el9_4
- cri-o-0:1.25.5-30.rhaos4.12.git53dc492.el8
- cri-o-0:1.26.5-26.rhaos4.13.giteb3d487.el8
- cri-o-0:1.27.8-12.rhaos4.14.git7597c43.el8
- openshift4/ose-docker-builder:v4.14.0-202503060906.p0.gb03f3f5.assembly.stream.el8
- cri-o-0:1.28.11-5.rhaos4.15.git35a2431.el8
- openshift4/ose-docker-builder:v4.15.0-202503060734.p0.gbc0b789.assembly.stream.el8
- cri-o-0:1.29.9-6.rhaos4.16.gite7bd45a.el8
22 more fixed releases are listed below.
Confirm against the vendor advisory before you patch.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative. Check it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 11 days ago·verify at source
- container-tools:rhel8-8100020241101101019.afee755d
- podman-4:4.9.4-16.el9_4
- podman-4:5.2.2-9.el9_5
- buildah-2:1.37.5-1.el9_5
- buildah-2:1.33.11-1.el9_4
- cri-o-0:1.25.5-30.rhaos4.12.git53dc492.el8
- cri-o-0:1.26.5-26.rhaos4.13.giteb3d487.el8
- cri-o-0:1.27.8-12.rhaos4.14.git7597c43.el8
- openshift4/ose-docker-builder:v4.14.0-202503060906.p0.gb03f3f5.assembly.stream.el8
- cri-o-0:1.28.11-5.rhaos4.15.git35a2431.el8
- openshift4/ose-docker-builder:v4.15.0-202503060734.p0.gbc0b789.assembly.stream.el8
- cri-o-0:1.29.9-6.rhaos4.16.gite7bd45a.el8
- podman-4:4.9.4-12.rhaos4.16.el8
- openshift4/ose-docker-builder-rhel9:v4.16.0-202503121138.p0.g31c3c26.assembly.stream.el9
- cri-o-0:1.30.6-6.rhaos4.17.git6ac6e96.el8
- podman-5:5.2.2-1.rhaos4.17.el8
- openshift4/ose-docker-builder-rhel9:v4.17.0-202501281204.p0.ga753153.assembly.stream.el9
- RHSA-2024:10289
- RHSA-2024:9051
- RHSA-2024:9454
- RHSA-2024:9459
- RHSA-2024:9926
- RHSA-2024:8694
- RHSA-2024:8690
- RHSA-2024:8700
- RHSA-2025:2710
- RHSA-2024:8428
- RHSA-2025:2454
- RHSA-2024:8418
- RHSA-2024:8686
- RHSA-2025:3301
- RHSA-2024:8437
- RHSA-2024:8984
- RHSA-2025:0876
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 11 days ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 11 days ago·verify at source
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