Status: UPDATED | Advisory ID: CVE-2026-18107
| CVE | CVE-2026-18107 |
| CVSS Score / Version | |
| Updated | 2026-11-03 |
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| Classified as |
| Vendor | Product | Affected Versions | Patch Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | ||
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | ||
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | ||
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | ||
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | ||
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 |
| Subsystems | OT Supporting Infrastructure |
| Sectors | Multiple |
A flaw was found in CRIU's handling of restartable sequences (rseq) during checkpoint/restore. A malicious process inside a container can register an rseq critical section that hijacks CRIU's parasite code injection during checkpoint, allowing it to spoof the process credentials saved in the checkpoint image. On restore, the container process gains elevated capabilities and zeroed UIDs/GIDs.
The practical impact on Red Hat products is limited by several factors: checkpoint/restore requires root privileges (podman) or cluster-admin RBAC (OpenShift) to trigger and cannot be initiated from within the container itself; on OpenShift prior to 4.17 the feature required explicit opt-in, and on 4.17+ the kubelet checkpoint API RBAC is not configured by default; OpenShift enforces user namespaces by default for regular workloads (hostUsers is gated behind admin-only SCCs), which makes the spoofed capabilities namespace-scoped and ineffective for privilege escalation; SELinux type enforcement (container_t) blocks privilege transitions independently of capabilities; seccomp filters persist through checkpoint/restore and cannot be corrupted via the parasite; and kernel mount namespace ownership checks on RHEL 9/10 kernels prevent mount-based container escape even with spoofed capabilities. (NVD)
Monitor Red Hat's web page for any future patch releases.
| Source | Reference |
|---|---|
| NVD | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-18107 |
| CVE | https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-18107 |