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CVE-2026-62146

A trust-boundary flaw in CRI-O's sandbox state persistence allows attacker-influenced pod metadata…

Risk score
47/100
CVSS
7.8 v3.1
Exploit chance (30 days)
0.1%
Published
30 Sep 2026

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What it is
A trust-boundary flaw in CRI-O's sandbox state persistence allows attacker-influenced pod metadata to overwrite CRI-O's own reserved sandbox bookkeeping; once reloaded as trusted after a restart, a later container recreate in that sandbox can expose a host-side runtime-management resource inside the container, enablin…
Affected
See advisory
Fix
Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
Exploitation
No known exploitation

Why it is Yellow

  • CVSS 7.8 high

References

Original description

A trust-boundary flaw in CRI-O's sandbox state persistence allows attacker-influenced pod metadata to overwrite CRI-O's own reserved sandbox bookkeeping; once reloaded as trusted after a restart, a later container recreate in that sandbox can expose a host-side runtime-management resource inside the container, enabling container escape.

Last activity 30 Sep 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.