CVE-2024-3056

Podman: kernel: containers in shared ipc namespace are vulnerable to denial of service attack

HIGH
7.7
CVSS Score
Published: August 2, 2024 at 08:37 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:43 AM UTC
5 products affected across 4 vendorsFedoraEnterprise LinuxOpenShift Container Platform

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Severity
HIGH7.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

A flaw was found in Podman. This issue may allow an attacker to create a specially crafted container that, when configured to share the same IPC with at least one other container, can create a large number of IPC resources in /dev/shm. The malicious container will continue to exhaust resources until it is out-of-memory (OOM) killed. While the malicious container's cgroup will be removed, the IPC resources it created are not. Those resources are tied to the IPC namespace that will not be removed until all containers using it are stopped, and one non-malicious container is holding the namespace open. The malicious container is restarted, either automatically or by attacker control, repeating the process and increasing the amount of memory consumed. With a container configured to restart always, such as `podman run --restart=always`, this can result in a memory-based denial of service of the system.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 5.2.0
Vendor states this is fixed in 8 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7 (unknown)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3.11 (unknown)
All versions

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (3)

VDB Entryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party AdvisoryVendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3056
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241227-0002/

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.7HIGHredhat
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400

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