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CVE-2023-6476 — A flaw was found in CRI-O that involves an experimental annotation leading to a

A flaw was found in CRI-O that involves an experimental annotation leading to a container being unconfined. This may allow a pod to specify and get any amount of memory/cpu, circumventing the kubernetes scheduler and potentially resulting in a denial of service in the node.

CVSS
6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.30% (top 47.10%)
CWE
CWE-770
Published
2024-01-09T21:32:03.407Z
Last modified
2025-11-20T18:05:55.102Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

A flaw was found in CRI-O that involves an experimental annotation leading to a container being unconfined. This may allow a pod to specify and get any amount of memory/cpu, circumventing the kubernetes scheduler and potentially resulting in a denial of service in the node.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.130:1.26.4-6.1.rhaos4.13.git9eb9cf3.el9
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.140:1.27.2-7.rhaos4.14.git1cc7a64.el9
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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