CVE-2024-8676: Improper Authorization
A vulnerability was found in CRI-O, where it can be requested to take a checkpoint archive of a container and later be asked to restore it. When it does that restoration, it attempts to restore the mounts from the restore archive instead of the pod request. As a result, the validations run on the pod spec, verifying that the pod has access to the mounts it specifies are not applicable to a restored container. This flaw allows a malicious user to trick CRI-O into restoring a pod that doesn't have access to host mounts. The user needs access to the kubelet or cri-o socket to call the restore endpoint and trigger the restore.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
CVE-2024-8676 is an improper authorization vulnerability in CRI-O container runtime. The flaw occurs because during checkpoint restore, CRI-O restores mounts from the checkpoint archive without validating them against the pod spec, bypassing mount access checks. Exploitation requires access to the kubelet or CRI-O socket to invoke the restore endpoint. This can allow a malicious user to restore pods with unauthorized host mounts. The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.4 (high severity) with network attack vector, high impact on confidentiality and integrity, and requires high attack complexity with no privileges or user interaction. Red Hat has issued security advisories with updated CRI-O packages for OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 and 4.16 to address this issue.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation allows an attacker with access to the kubelet or CRI-O socket to restore a container pod with mounts that the pod should not have access to, potentially leading to unauthorized access to host filesystem mounts. This compromises confidentiality and integrity of the host and container environment. There are no known exploits in the wild at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released official fixes for this vulnerability in OpenShift Container Platform versions 4.15.44 and 4.16.26. Users should upgrade to these or later versions to remediate the issue. The vendor manages remediation for these on-premise/private cloud deployments via updated RPM packages and container images. Patch status is confirmed as fixed in these updates. No additional mitigations are specified by the vendor advisory.
CVE-2024-8676: Improper Authorization
Description
A vulnerability was found in CRI-O, where it can be requested to take a checkpoint archive of a container and later be asked to restore it. When it does that restoration, it attempts to restore the mounts from the restore archive instead of the pod request. As a result, the validations run on the pod spec, verifying that the pod has access to the mounts it specifies are not applicable to a restored container. This flaw allows a malicious user to trick CRI-O into restoring a pod that doesn't have access to host mounts. The user needs access to the kubelet or cri-o socket to call the restore endpoint and trigger the restore.
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
CVE-2024-8676 is an improper authorization vulnerability in CRI-O container runtime. The flaw occurs because during checkpoint restore, CRI-O restores mounts from the checkpoint archive without validating them against the pod spec, bypassing mount access checks. Exploitation requires access to the kubelet or CRI-O socket to invoke the restore endpoint. This can allow a malicious user to restore pods with unauthorized host mounts. The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.4 (high severity) with network attack vector, high impact on confidentiality and integrity, and requires high attack complexity with no privileges or user interaction. Red Hat has issued security advisories with updated CRI-O packages for OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 and 4.16 to address this issue.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation allows an attacker with access to the kubelet or CRI-O socket to restore a container pod with mounts that the pod should not have access to, potentially leading to unauthorized access to host filesystem mounts. This compromises confidentiality and integrity of the host and container environment. There are no known exploits in the wild at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released official fixes for this vulnerability in OpenShift Container Platform versions 4.15.44 and 4.16.26. Users should upgrade to these or later versions to remediate the issue. The vendor manages remediation for these on-premise/private cloud deployments via updated RPM packages and container images. Patch status is confirmed as fixed in these updates. No additional mitigations are specified by the vendor advisory.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- redhat
- Date Reserved
- 2024-09-10T19:56:52.932Z
- Cisa Enriched
- true
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Vendor Advisory Urls
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Threat ID: 682d9839c4522896dcbed004
Added to database: 5/21/2025, 9:09:13 AM
Last enriched: 4/24/2026, 11:14:05 PM
Last updated: 5/8/2026, 10:21:34 PM
Views: 67
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