---
title: "CVE-2026-62146: CRI-O - Broken Access Control"
description: "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."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-62146/
---

# 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

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-62146)

## 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](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/501.html)

## 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

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-62146](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-62146)
- [https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/security/advisories/GHSA-6wmc-5877-hgc9](https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/security/advisories/GHSA-6wmc-5877-hgc9)
- [https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-62146](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-62146)
- [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show\_bug.cgi?id=2499618](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499618)

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