CVE-2024-9676: Podman, Buildah · Path Traversal
Source GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.5 Medium : update affected systems when convenient.
Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 22:22 UTC
Thin evidence
One scorer or none| CNA (redhat) | CVSS 3.1 | 6.5 |
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 15 Oct 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 30 Oct 2026.
What to do
Patches and advisories
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3301 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2710 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2454 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0876 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9926 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9459 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9454 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9051 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8984 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8700 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8694 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8690 (opens in a new tab)
Description
A vulnerability was found in Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O. A symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O to hang and result in a denial of service via OOM kill when running a malicious image using an automatically assigned user namespace (`--userns=auto` in Podman and Buildah). 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.
References
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9676 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/containers/storage/commit/935c58f4b3e364a9c9d33ed06476a831e6ad5679 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-wq2p-5pc6-wpgf (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317467 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-9676 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3301 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2710 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2454 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0876 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9926 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9459 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9454 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9051 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8984 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8700 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8694 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8690 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8686 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8437 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8428 (opens in a new tab)