PT-2019-13858 · Cri-O+1 · Cri-O+1

Published 2019-11-25 · Updated 2020-07-21 · CVE-2019-14891

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions cri-o (affected versions not specified)

Description A flaw in cri-o allows all pod-related processes to be placed in the same memory cgroup. This can lead to container management (conmon) processes being killed if a workload process triggers an out-of-memory (OOM) condition for the cgroup. An attacker could exploit this flaw to gain host network access on a cri-o host.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Improper Check for Exceptional Conditions

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-460

CWE-754

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2020-1840

ALT-PU-2020-2425

CVE-2019-14891

RHSA-2020:2776

RHSA-2020:2992

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Cri-O

References · 4

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-14891 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14891 · Security Note
• https://t.me/sysadminnotes/1558 · Telegram Post
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14891 · Note