CVE-2024-3154

HIGH 7.2

Cri-o: arbitrary command injection via pod annotation

CVSS Score

7.2

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

A flaw was found in cri-o, where an arbitrary systemd property can be injected via a Pod annotation. Any user who can create a pod with an arbitrary annotation may perform an arbitrary action on the host system.

CWE	CWE-77
Published	Apr 26, 2024
Last Updated	Nov 20, 2025

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Affected Versions

Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12

All versions affected

Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13

All versions affected

Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14

All versions affected

Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15

All versions affected

Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11

All versions affected

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2669 access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2672 access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2784 access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3496 access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3154 bugzilla.redhat.com: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272532 github.com: https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/security/advisories/GHSA-2cgq-h8xw-2v5j github.com: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/4217 github.com: https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/main/features.md#unsafe-annotations-in-configjson

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Akihiro Suda and Cédric Clerget for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges the CRI-O team as the original reporter.