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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-9676"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-15T15:27:33.665Z"
updatedAt: "2026-04-24T15:07:44.878Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:24.991Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-9676"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-9676.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9676"
title: "Podman: buildah: cri-o: symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause denial of service (dos)"
summary: "A vulnerability was found in Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O. A symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O to hang and result in a denial of service via OOM kill when running a malicious image using an automatically assigned user namespace (`--userns=auto` in Podman and Buildah). The containers/storage library will read /etc/passwd inside the container, but does not properly validate if that file is a symlink, which can be used to cause the library to read an arbitrary file on the host."
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