{"schema_version":"1.7.5","id":"GHSA-2cgq-h8xw-2v5j","published":"2024-04-30T09:39:38Z","modified":"2026-05-04T09:00:05.169522273Z","aliases":["CVE-2024-3154","GO-2024-2791"],"related":["CGA-h76v-2xh7-hm37"],"summary":"CRI-O vulnerable to an arbitrary systemd property injection","details":"### Impact\nOn CRI-O, it looks like an arbitrary systemd property can be injected via a Pod annotation:\n```\n---\napiVersion: v1\nkind: Pod\nmetadata:\n  name: poc-arbitrary-systemd-property-injection\n  annotations:\n    # I believe that ExecStart with an arbitrary command works here too,\n    # but I haven't figured out how to marshalize the ExecStart struct to gvariant string.\n    org.systemd.property.SuccessAction: \"'poweroff-force'\"\nspec:\n  containers:\n    - name: hello\n      image: [quay.io/podman/hello](http://quay.io/podman/hello)\n```\n\nThis means that any user who can create a pod with an arbitrary annotation may perform an arbitrary action on the host system.\n\nTested with CRI-O v1.24 on minikube.\nI didn't test the latest v1.29 because it is incompatible with minikube: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/18367\n\nThanks to Cédric Clerget (GitHub ID @cclerget) for finding out that CRI-O just passes pod annotations to OCI annotations:\nhttps://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/3923#discussion_r1532292536\n\nCRI-O has to filter out annotations that have the prefix \"org.systemd.property.\"\n\nSee also:\n- https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/main/features.md#unsafe-annotations-in-configjson\n- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/4217\n\n\n### Workarounds\nUnfortunately, the only workarounds would involve an external mutating webhook to disallow these annotations\n\n### References\n\n","affected":[{"package":{"name":"github.com/cri-o/cri-o","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/cri-o/cri-o"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"1.29.0"},{"fixed":"1.29.4"}]}],"database_specific":{"last_known_affected_version_range":"<= 1.29.3","source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/04/GHSA-2cgq-h8xw-2v5j/GHSA-2cgq-h8xw-2v5j.json"}},{"package":{"name":"github.com/cri-o/cri-o","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/cri-o/cri-o"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"1.28.0"},{"fixed":"1.28.6"}]}],"database_specific":{"last_known_affected_version_range":"<= 1.28.5","source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/04/GHSA-2cgq-h8xw-2v5j/GHSA-2cgq-h8xw-2v5j.json"}},{"package":{"name":"github.com/cri-o/cri-o","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/cri-o/cri-o"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.27.6"}]}],"database_specific":{"last_known_affected_version_range":"<= 1.27.5","source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/04/GHSA-2cgq-h8xw-2v5j/GHSA-2cgq-h8xw-2v5j.json"}}],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/security/advisories/GHSA-2cgq-h8xw-2v5j"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3154"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/4217"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3154"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272532"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/main/features.md#unsafe-annotations-in-configjson"}],"database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-77"],"github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2024-04-30T09:39:38Z","nvd_published_at":null,"severity":"HIGH"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}