CVE-2026-92574

8.8 HIGH

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

AI risk analysis

Summary: This vulnerability allows a user to bypass Kubernetes security context by restoring a pod from a malicious checkpointed container, potentially leading to elevated privileges.
Exploitability: Exploitation requires permission to create a pod and access to a malicious checkpoint image; availability of checkpoint restore functionality is necessary.
Blast radius: If exploited, this can lead to significant security breaches across the Kubernetes cluster boundary, compromising multiple systems.
Prioritized remediation: Update CRI-O to the latest supported version or disable checkpoint restore functionality if not needed.

auth-bypasskubernetescontainer-securityprivilege-escalation

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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

All references

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