Red HatCVE-2026-15809
Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation: format string
No fix yet
A flaw was found in CRI-O. The fix for a previous vulnerability (CVE-2022-4318) was incorrect, allowing it to be bypassed. An attacker capable of setting environment variables on a container can inject a newline character into the HOME environment variable. This issue allows the addition of arbitrary lines into /etc/passwd by use of a specially crafted environment variable.
Affected versions
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Confidential Compute Attestation Product | all versions | No fix yet |
Details and references
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity from
- the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-134, CWE-116
- www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-15809
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-15809
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57361
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60444
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60449
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60452
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:62548
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65838
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65906
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66385
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67836
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67856
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70585
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-15809
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2500846
- github.com/cri-o/cri-o/pull/6450
- github.com/cri-o/cri-o/pull/6524