CVE-2019-14891
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CVE-2019-14891 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 5/10 on the CVSS scale. A flaw was found in cri-o, as a result of all pod-related processes being placed in the same memory cgroup. This can result in container management (conmon) processes being killed if a workload process triggers an out-of-memory (OOM) condition for the cgroup. EPSS estimates a 0.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
A flaw was found in cri-o, as a result of all pod-related processes being placed in the same memory cgroup. This can result in container management (conmon) processes being killed if a workload process triggers an out-of-memory (OOM) condition for the cgroup. An attacker could abuse this flaw to get host network access on an cri-o host.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes | Cri-O | < 1.16.1 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | All versions |
| Redhat | Openshift Container Platform | 3.11 |
| Redhat | Openshift Container Platform | 4.1 |
| Redhat | Openshift Container Platform | 4.2 |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14891Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14891Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Timeline
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- Status
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