CVE-2025-4437
Cri-o: large /etc/passwd file may lead to denial of service
Vexday Risk Score
13Baixo
Decisão SSVC (CISA)
Track
Sem sinal de exploração → monitorar
CVSS 5.7EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Ciclo de vida
20 ago 2025Publicada no NVD
Recomendação: Monitorar — sem sinal de exploração no momento.
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
Produtos afetados
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4