CVE-2024-3056

HIGH

Podman < 5.2.0 - Denial of Service via IPC Resource Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in Podman. This issue may allow an attacker to create a specially crafted container that, when configured to share the same IPC with at least one other container, can create a large number of IPC resources in /dev/shm. The malicious container will continue to exhaust resources until it is out-of-memory (OOM) killed. While the malicious container's cgroup will be removed, the IPC resources it created are not. Those resources are tied to the IPC namespace that will not be removed until all containers using it are stopped, and one non-malicious container is holding the namespace open. The malicious container is restarted, either automatically or by attacker control, repeating the process and increasing the amount of memory consumed. With a container configured to restart always, such as `podman run --restart=always`, this can result in a memory-based denial of service of the system.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3056
Issue Tracking issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270717

Scores

CVSS v3 7.7
EPSS 0.0036
EPSS Percentile 58.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (6)
containers/podman 0 (5 CPE variants)Go
fedoraproject/fedora 40
podman_project/podman < 5.2.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 9.0
redhat/openshift_container_platform 4.0
Published Aug 02, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026