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{"acknowledgement": "Red Hat would like to thank lyhtheori for reporting this issue.", "bugzilla": {"description": "cri-o: CRI-O checkpoint restore bypasses destination security context", "id": "2535436", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2535436"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "8.8", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-250", "details": ["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.\nAffected 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.\nExploitation requires permission to create a pod from a malicious checkpoint image and checkpoint restore functionality to be available."], "mitigation": {"lang": "en:us", "value": "Upgrade (primary remediation): Update CRI-O to a fixed version once available: 1.36.6 (1.36.x branch), 1.35.9 (1.35.x branch), or 1.34.14 (1.34.x branch). For Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, apply the corresponding OCP update when released.\nUntil the fix is applied, the following measures reduce exposure:\nDisable checkpoint restore if not required: In OpenShift, container checkpoint/restore requires the ContainerCheckpoint feature gate, which is Tech Preview and not enabled by default. Clusters that have not explicitly enabled this feature gate are not exposed to this flaw. If it was enabled and is not actively needed, disable it. For standalone CRI-O, set enable_criu_support = false in crio.conf under [crio.runtime] and restart the CRI-O service.\nRestrict pod creation privileges: Limit Kubernetes RBAC for the create and update verbs on pods, deployments, daemonsets, statefulsets, jobs, and cronjobs resources to trusted users and service accounts only. Exploitation requires the ability to schedule a pod referencing a malicious checkpoint image.\nEnforce Pod Security Standards: Apply the restricted or baseline Pod Security Standard at the namespace level using Pod Security Admission. While this does not directly block checkpoint restore, it limits the security contexts an attacker can request, reducing the impact if combined with other controls.\nRestrict container image registries: Use an image policy (e.g., OpenShift image policy, Kyverno, or OPA Gatekeeper) to allowlist trusted registries only. This prevents pods from pulling malicious checkpoint images hosted on attacker-controlled registries.\nIdentify and remediate previously restored containers: If checkpoint restore has been used with images from untrusted sources, stop, delete, and recreate those containers. The restored process state may not match the intended security context."}, "name": "CVE-2026-92574", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:confidential_compute_attestation:1", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "openshift-sandboxed-containers/osc-monitor-rhel9", "product_name": "Confidential Compute Attestation"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "container-tools:rhel8/conmon", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "container-tools:rhel8/podman", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "conmon", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "conmon", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "cri-o", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kata-containers", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "openshift4/cnf-tests-rhel8", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "openshift4/microshift-bootc-rhel10", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "openshift4/microshift-bootc-rhel9", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "openshift4/ztp-site-generate-rhel8", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "ose-crio-credential-provider", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4"}], "public_date": "2026-09-21T09:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-92574\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-92574"], "statement": "A flaw was found in CRI-O's checkpoint restore implementation. When restoring a container from a checkpoint archive or annotated OCI image pulled from a remote registry, CRIU restores process credentials, Linux capabilities, the no_new_privs bit, and seccomp state directly from the checkpoint data rather than enforcing the security context specified in the Kubernetes pod specification. An attacker with pod creation privileges can craft a malicious checkpointed container image that, when restored, executes processes as root with full capabilities and no seccomp filtering, bypassing the security policies requested by the orchestrator. CRI-O's checkpoint restore from remote registries is enabled by default in affected versions, making this exploitable without local node access.", "threat_severity": "Important"}