CVE-2019-14891: fedoraproject fedora Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2019-14891 is a medium (CVSS 6.0) Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 0.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 25-11-2019
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A flaw was found in cri-o, as a result of all pod-related processes being placed in the same memory cgroup. This can result in container management (conmon) processes being killed if a workload process triggers an out-of-memory (OOM) condition for the cgroup. An attacker could abuse this flaw to get host network access on an cri-o host.

• CWE-460Improper Cleanup on Thrown ExceptionThe product does not clean up its state or incorrectly cleans up its state when an exception is thrown, leading to unexpected state or control flow.
• CWE-754Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional ConditionsThe product does not check or incorrectly checks for unusual or exceptional conditions that are not expected to occur frequently during day to day operation of the product.