CVE-2026-15809 (GCVE-0-2026-15809)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-15 12:32 – Updated: 2026-07-16 05:41
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Title
Github.com/cri-o/cri-o: fix bypass for cve-2022-4318 — /etc/passwd injection via home env
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-134 - Use of Externally-Controlled Format String
  • CWE-116 - Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation     cpe:/a:redhat:confidential_compute_attestation:1
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Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
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Date Public
2026-07-15 10:18
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Nebojša Jaćović for reporting this issue.
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