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OESA-2025-1349 (CVE-2024-40635)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2025-03-29 11:08 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:08 – Source website

Summary

containerd security update

Details

containerd is an industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability. It is available as a daemon for Linux and Windows, which can manage the complete container lifecycle of its host system: image transfer and storage, container execution and supervision, low-level storage and network attachments, etc.

Security Fix(es):

containerd is an open-source container runtime. A bug was found in containerd prior to versions 1.6.38, 1.7.27, and 2.0.4 where containers launched with a User set as a UID:GID larger than the maximum 32-bit signed integer can cause an overflow condition where the container ultimately runs as root (UID 0). This could cause unexpected behavior for environments that require containers to run as a non-root user. This bug has been fixed in containerd 1.6.38, 1.7.27, and 2.04. As a workaround, ensure that only trusted images are used and that only trusted users have permissions to import images.(CVE-2024-40635)

Severity

4.6 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40635	ADVISORY

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  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:08:26Z",
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CVE-2024-40635 (GCVE-0-2024-40635)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-17 21:32 – Updated: 2025-05-04 22:02

Title

containerd has an integer overflow in User ID handling

Summary

containerd is an open-source container runtime. A bug was found in containerd prior to versions 1.6.38, 1.7.27, and 2.0.4 where containers launched with a User set as a `UID:GID` larger than the maximum 32-bit signed integer can cause an overflow condition where the container ultimately runs as root (UID 0). This could cause unexpected behavior for environments that require containers to run as a non-root user. This bug has been fixed in containerd 1.6.38, 1.7.27, and 2.04. As a workaround, ensure that only trusted images are used and that only trusted users have permissions to import images.

Severity

4.6 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-18 14:17 UTC

CWE

CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/security…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/0…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/1…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/c…	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
containerd	containerd	Affected: < 1.6.38 Affected: >= 1.7.0-beta.0, < 1.7.27 Affected: >= 2.0.0-beta.0, < 2.0.4

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