CVE intelligence

CVE-2024-9676

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Oct 15, 2024Sources checked Oct 24, 2026

6.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2024-9676 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Microsoft Security Response Center guidance

Vendor revision: Aug 12, 2026

CBL-Mariner Releases

Vendor-listed releases

1.14.2-9
1.14.4-3
1.22.3-14

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS1.3%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2024-9676?

A vulnerability was found in Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O. A symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O to hang and result in a denial of service via OOM kill when running a malicious image using an automatically assigned user namespace (`--userns=auto` in Podman and Buildah).

The containers/storage library will read /etc/passwd inside the container, but does not properly validate if that file is a symlink, which can be used to cause the library to read an arbitrary file on the host.

Source: NVD