🛡️ CVE-2022-23471
🟡 CVSS 5.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 NVD
5.7
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

containerd is an open source container runtime. A bug was found in containerd's CRI implementation where a user can exhaust memory on the host. In the CRI stream server, a goroutine is launched to handle terminal resize events if a TTY is requested. If the user's process fails to launch due to, for example, a faulty command, the goroutine will be stuck waiting to send without a receiver, resulting in a memory leak. Kubernetes and crictl can both be configured to use containerd's CRI implementation and the stream server is used for handling container IO. This bug has been fixed in containerd 1.6.12 and 1.5.16. Users should update to these versions to resolve the issue. Users unable to upgrade should ensure that only trusted images and commands are used and that only trusted users have permissions to execute commands in running containers.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-12-07
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
containerd 1.6.0 1.6.12
github.com/containerd/containerd — —

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