CVE-2023-6476 (GCVE-0-2023-6476)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-09 21:32
Modified
2025-11-20 18:05
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
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| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 |
Unaffected: 0:1.26.4-6.1.rhaos4.13.git9eb9cf3.el9 < * cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.13::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.13::el8 |
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Nomenclature
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