{"id":"CVE-2024-3154","aliases":["GHSA-2cgq-h8xw-2v5j","GO-2024-2791"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2024-3154","summary":"Cri-o: arbitrary command injection via pod annotation","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","published":"2024-04-26T03:12:38.036Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:41.431427972Z","cvss":{"score":7.2,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"epss":null,"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":0,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/cri-o/cri-o","fixedVersion":"1.29.4"},{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/cri-o/cri-o","fixedVersion":"1.28.6"},{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/cri-o/cri-o","fixedVersion":"1.27.6"}],"fix":{"url":"https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/4217","label":"opencontainers/runc#4217"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/main/features.md#unsafe-annotations-in-configjson"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2669"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2672"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2784"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3496"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3154"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/3xxx/CVE-2024-3154.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","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":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272532"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/4217"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-10-28T02:30:41.431427972Z"}}