CVE-2024-25621

unknown
Published 2025-11-06 · Modified 2026-02-04
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

containerd affected by a local privilege escalation via wide permissions on CRI directory in github.com/containerd/containerd

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-25621.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-25621

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.6.20~ds1-1+deb12u2
debian debianbullseyefixed1.4.13~ds1-1~deb11u6
debian debianforkyfixed1.7.24~ds1-9
debian debiansidfixed1.7.24~ds1-9
debian debiantrixiefixed1.7.24~ds1-6+deb13u1
suse slesaffected

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
golang Gogithub.com/containerd/containerd<1.7.291.7.29
golang Gogithub.com/containerd/containerd/v2<2.0.72.0.7
golang Gogithub.com/containerd/containerd/v2>=2.1.0-beta.0,<2.1.52.1.5
golang Gogithub.com/containerd/containerd/v2>=2.2.0-beta.0,<2.2.02.2.0

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.