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CVE-2025-4437

Cri-o: large /etc/passwd file may lead to denial of service

CVSS 5.7 MEDIUMEPSS 0.2%CWE-770
Vexday Risk Score
13Bajo
Decisión SSVC (CISA)
Track
Sin señal de explotación → monitorear
CVSS 5.7EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Ciclo de vida
20 ago 2025Publicada en NVD
Recomendación: Monitorear — sin señal de explotación por ahora.
There's a vulnerability in the CRI-O application where when container is launched with securityContext.runAsUser specifying a non-existent user, CRI-O attempts to create the user, reading the container's entire /etc/passwd file into memory. If this file is excessively large, it can cause the a high memory consumption leading applications to be killed due to out-of-memory. As a result a denial-of-service can be achieved, possibly disrupting other pods and services running in the same host.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H