CVE-2026-62146 CRI-O - Broken Access Control

CRI-O contains a trust-boundary flaw in sandbox state persistence caused by attacker-influenced pod metadata overwriting reserved sandbox bookkeeping, letting attackers escape container via host runtime resource exposure after restart, exploit requires attacker to influence pod metadata.

CVSS base score 7.8 /10
High
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
Proof of concept available
EPSS
0.11% chance of exploitation in 30 days
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Details

Type
Broken Access Control
Impact
Privilege Escalation
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
30 September 2026
Updated
15 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-501

Vendor fix

Update to the latest version with sandbox state persistence fixes.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

References

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