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Medium · 4.6 CVE-2025-47291 EUVD-2025-16049GHSA-cxfp-7pvr-95ffGO-2025-3701

containerd CRI plugin: Incorrect cgroup hierarchy assignment for containers running in usernamespaced Kubernetes pods.

Published May 21, 2025 · Updated May 21, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

containerd is an open-source container runtime. A bug was found in the containerd's CRI implementation where containerd, starting in version 2.0.1 and prior to version 2.0.5, doesn't put usernamespaced containers under the Kubernetes' cgroup hierarchy, therefore some Kubernetes limits are not honored. This may cause a denial of service of the Kubernetes node. This bug has been fixed in containerd 2.0.5+ and 2.1.0+. Users should update to these versions to resolve the issue. As a workaround, disable usernamespaced pods in Kubernetes temporarily.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
containerd containerd >= 2.0.1, < 2.0.5 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 containerd-app 2.0.5-0ubuntu1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250523T151856-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15159-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed trivy 0.65.0-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15454-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 containerd2 2.0.0-12 —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling k3s +2 1.33.0.1-r2 —
Wolfi rolling melange 0.26.0-r1 —
Wolfi rolling wolfictl 0.37.1-r1 —
Wolfi rolling zot 2.1.3-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 >= 2.0.1, < 2.0.5 2.0.5 GHSA-cxfp-7pvr-95ff

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