CVE-2019-14891

MEDIUM

cri-o < 1.16.1 - Denial of Service via Memory Cgroup OOM Condition

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14891

Scores

CVSS v3 5.0
EPSS 0.0032
EPSS Percentile 54.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-754 CWE-460
Status published
Products (5)
fedoraproject/fedora
kubernetes/cri-o < 1.16.1
redhat/openshift_container_platform 3.11
redhat/openshift_container_platform 4.1
redhat/openshift_container_platform 4.2
Published Nov 25, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026