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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-92574 EUVD-2026-83881GHSA-mhq8-392f-7m6m

Cri-o: cri-o checkpoint restore bypasses destination security context

Published Sep 21, 2026 · Updated Nov 5, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

Description

A vulnerability in CRI-O checkpoint restore allows a user who can create a pod from a malicious checkpointed container to bypass the destination Kubernetes security context. The restored process may retain credentials, Linux capabilities, no_new_privs, and seccomp state from the checkpoint instead of enforcing the destination configuration. This can allow execution with elevated privileges across the container security boundary.
Affected upstream supported versions are CRI-O 1.34 and later. Downstream Red Hat products are affected from OCP 4.17 onward. Fixes have been applied to supported branches but are not yet released.
Exploitation requires permission to create a pod from a malicious checkpoint image and checkpoint restore functionality to be available.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— cri-o 1.34.0 – < 1.34.14, 1.35.0 – < 1.35.9, 1.36.0 – < 1.36.6 1.34.14
Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 — —

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