🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-15809

HIGH 7.8

Github.com/cri-o/cri-o: fix bypass for cve-2022-4318 — /etc/passwd injection via home env

CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

A flaw was found in CRI-O. The fix for a previous vulnerability (CVE-2022-4318) was incorrect, allowing it to be bypassed. An attacker capable of setting environment variables on a container can inject a newline character into the HOME environment variable. This issue allows the addition of arbitrary lines into /etc/passwd by use of a specially crafted environment variable.

CWE CWE-134
Vendor red hat
Product confidential compute attestation
Published Jul 15, 2026
Last Updated Jul 16, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Affected Versions

Red Hat / Confidential Compute Attestation
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
All versions affected

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-15809 bugzilla.redhat.com: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2500846 github.com: https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/pull/6450 github.com: https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/pull/6524

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Nebojša Jaćović for reporting this issue.