CVE-2019-14891

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductKubernetes Cri-o
PublishedNov 25, 2019
First seenNov 25, 2019
Weakness typeCWE-460CWE-460

How to fix

Update
  • kubernetes cri-o1.16.1 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
kubernetes cri-ov < 1.16.11.16.1
fedoraproject fedoraNo range specified—
redhat openshift_container_platform3.11, 4.1, 4.2—

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