CVE-2026-62146 (GCVE-0-2026-62146)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-30 11:49 – Updated: 2026-09-30 11:49
VLAI
Title
Cri-o: cri-o: sandbox state poisoning via pod annotations may expose runtime socket
Summary
A trust-boundary flaw in CRI-O's sandbox state persistence allows attacker-influenced pod metadata to overwrite CRI-O's own reserved sandbox bookkeeping; once reloaded as trusted after a restart, a later container recreate in that sandbox can expose a host-side runtime-management resource inside the container, enabling container escape.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-501 - Trust Boundary Violation
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
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Date Public
2026-08-24 00:10
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