CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-14891

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2019-11-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-11-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-460, CWE-754

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.

Affected configurations

• kubernetes cri-o (< 1.16.1) • fedoraproject fedora • redhat openshift container platform 3.11 • redhat openshift container platform 4.1 • redhat openshift container platform 4.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-460 Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception weakness
  • CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions weakness

References