CVE-2026-92574

8.8 HIGH

Published 2026-09-21 · Updated 2026-09-22

AI risk analysis

Summary: This vulnerability allows a user to bypass Kubernetes security context by creating a pod from a malicious checkpointed container, potentially leading to elevated privileges.
Exploitability: Exploitation requires permission to create a pod from a malicious checkpoint image and checkpoint restore functionality to be available. This makes it moderately exploitable.
Blast radius: If exploited, this can result in execution with elevated privileges across the container security boundary, impacting the entire Kubernetes cluster.
Detection: No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
Prioritized remediation: Upgrade to CRI-O 1.34 or later, or disable checkpoint restore functionality.

auth-bypasskubernetescontainersecurity-context

Analysis generated locally by qwen2.5:7b-instruct (no data left the box). AI-assisted — verify against primary sources before acting.

NVD description

A vulnerability in CRI-O checkpoint restore allows a user who can create a pod from a malicious checkpointed container to bypass the destination Kubernetes security context. The restored process may retain credentials, Linux capabilities, no_new_privs, and seccomp state from the checkpoint instead of enforcing the destination configuration. This can allow execution with elevated privileges across the container security boundary. Affected upstream supported versions are CRI-O 1.34 and later. Downstream Red Hat products are affected from OCP 4.17 onward. Fixes have been applied to supported branches but are not yet released. Exploitation requires permission to create a pod from a malicious checkpoint image and checkpoint restore functionality to be available.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-250

References

Data: NVD (public domain). Analysis: local $0 model. Defensive use only.