CVE-2026-84042

high

Description

A flaw was found in crun. When crun is built with libkrun and a container is started rootful with passt networking (krun.use_passt), crun can execute attacker-controlled payload from the container image with host root privileges. The issue is a regression in crun 1.29. It affects crun >= 1.29

References

https://github.com/containers/crun/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2531222

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84042

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-10

Updated: 2026-09-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.001