Answer in brief
CVE-2024-9676 records a Medium severity (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in Podman: buildah: cri-o: symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause denial of service (dos). The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Red Hat/buildah (generic), containers/storage (generic), Red Hat/jenkins-agent-base-rhel9-container (generic), Red Hat/ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel8 (generic) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 6.5. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Red Hat/buildah (generic), containers/storage (generic), Red Hat/jenkins-agent-base-rhel9-container (generic), Red Hat/ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel8 (generic) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat/buildahgeneric | * | Not reported |
| containers/storagegeneric | >=0 <1.55.1 | 1.55.1 |
| Red Hat/jenkins-agent-base-rhel9-containergeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/ocp-tools-4/jenkins-agent-base-rhel8generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/podmangeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/quay/quay-builder-rhel8generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/skopeogeneric | * | Not reported |
Published upstream
Oct 15, 2024
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 30, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Oct 30, 2026
A vulnerability was found in Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O. A symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O to hang and result in a denial of service via OOM kill when running a malicious image using an automatically assigned user namespace (`--userns=auto` in Podman and Buildah). The containers/storage library will read /etc/passwd inside the container, but does not properly validate if that file is a symlink, which can be used to cause the library to read an arbitrary file on the host.
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