CVE-2023-6476 (GCVE-0-2023-6476)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-09 21:32
Modified
2025-11-20 18:05
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.
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0195 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0207 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6476 vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253994 issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 Unaffected: 0:1.27.2-7.rhaos4.14.git1cc7a64.el9   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.14::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.14::el8
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:3.11
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