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CVE-2024-3056

high

A flaw was found in Podman.

Vendor / product: Podman Project — podman

A flaw was found in Podman. This issue may allow an attacker to create a specially crafted container that, when configured to share the same IPC with at least one other container, can create a large number of IPC resources in /dev/shm. The malicious container will continue to exhaust resources until it is out-of-memory (OOM) killed. While the malicious container's cgroup will be removed, the IPC resources it created are not. Those resources are tied to the IPC namespace that will not be removed until all containers using it are stopped, and one non-malicious container is holding the namespace open. The malicious container is restarted, either automatically or by attacker control, repeating the process and increasing the amount of memory consumed. With a container configured to restart always, such as `podman run --restart=always`, this can result in a memory-based denial of service of the system.

CVSS
7.7
7.7 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (secalert@redhat.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2024-08-02 21:16
Modified: 2026-10-29 07:16
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 56 minutes ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-29 07:22 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

podman_project / podman ≤5.2.0
redhat / openshift_container_platform 4.0
redhat / enterprise_linux 8.0, 9.0
fedoraproject / fedora 40

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3056

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-29 07:22 UTC · record ↗

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