GHSA-8f93-j3fx-72f3

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8f93-j3fx-72f3

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/08/GHSA-8f93-j3fx-72f3/GHSA-8f93-j3fx-72f3.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-8f93-j3fx-72f3

Aliases

CVE-2025-4437
GO-2025-3897

Published

2025-08-20T15:31:41Z

Modified

2025-08-29T20:38:22Z

Severity

5.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

CRI-O has Potential High Memory Consumption from File Read

Details

There's a vulnerability in the CRI-O application where when container is launched with securityContext.runAsUser specifying a non-existent user, CRI-O attempts to create the user, reading the container's entire /etc/passwd file into memory. If this file is excessively large, it can cause the a high memory consumption leading applications to be killed due to out-of-memory. As a result a denial-of-service can be achieved, possibly disrupting other pods and services running in the same host.

Database specific

{
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-08-20T19:10:29Z",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-770"
    ],
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-08-20T13:15:28Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
}

References

Affected packages

Go / github.com/cri-o/cri-o

Package

Name: github.com/cri-o/cri-o; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/cri-o/cri-o

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Last affected

1.33.3

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/08/GHSA-8f93-j3fx-72f3/GHSA-8f93-j3fx-72f3.json"