CVE-2026-62146
highA trust-boundary flaw in CRI-O's sandbox state persistence allows attacker-influenced pod metadata to overwrite CRI-O's own reserved sandbox bookkeeping; once…
A trust-boundary flaw in CRI-O's sandbox state persistence allows attacker-influenced pod metadata to overwrite CRI-O's own reserved sandbox bookkeeping; once reloaded as trusted after a restart, a later container recreate in that sandbox can expose a host-side runtime-management resource inside the container, enabling container escape.
CVSS
7.8
7.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (secalert@redhat.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-09-30 12:17
Modified: 2026-10-27 22:17
NVD status: Awaiting Analysis
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-28 11:30 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
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:89713 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-62146 secalert@redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499618 secalert@redhat.com
- https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/security/advisories/GHSA-6wmc-5877-hgc9 secalert@redhat.com
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-28 11:30 UTC · record ↗