8.6

CVE-2024-11218: Podman: buildah: container breakout by using --jobs=2 and a race condition when building a malicious containerfile

Deferred
AliasesSUSE-SU-2025:0301-1SUSE-SU-2025:0382-1RHSA-2025:0878
Published 22-01-2025Last modified 30-10-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-11218 is a high (CVSS 8.6) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in buildah. EPSS estimates a 0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 8.6, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
8.6/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.36%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 11 · Related 12

Timeline

  1. 22-01-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 30-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability was found in `podman build` and `buildah.` This issue occurs in a container breakout by using --jobs=2 and a race condition when building a malicious Containerfile. SELinux might mitigate it, but even with SELinux on, it still allows the enumeration of files and directories on the host.

CVSS metrics

9 scores · 9 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.36%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

30%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.36% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Redhat67 products
  • aardvark-dns< 2:1.0.1-40.module+el8.6.0+22769+fa0fe772 | < 2:1.5.0-2.module+el8.8.0+22334+bb93e398 | < 2:1.10.1-2.module+el8.10.0+22417+2fb00970
  • buildah< 2:1.37.6-1.el9_5 | < 1:1.26.9-1.el9_0 | < 2:1.33.12-2.el9_4 | < 1:1.26.9-2.module+el8.6.0+22769+fa0fe772 | < 1:1.29.5-1.module+el8.8.0+22779+ce927503 | < 1:1.29.5-1.el9_2 | < 2:1.33.12-1.module+el8.10.0+22744+7794713b | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.16.el8 | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.16.el9 | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.17.el8 | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.17.el9 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.15.el8 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.15.el9 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.14.el8 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.14.el9
  • buildah-debuginfo< 2:1.37.6-1.el9_5 | < 1:1.26.9-1.el9_0 | < 2:1.33.12-2.el9_4 | < 1:1.26.9-2.module+el8.6.0+22769+fa0fe772 | < 1:1.29.5-1.module+el8.8.0+22779+ce927503 | < 1:1.29.5-1.el9_2 | < 2:1.33.12-1.module+el8.10.0+22744+7794713b | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.16.el8 | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.16.el9 | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.17.el8 | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.17.el9 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.15.el8 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.15.el9 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.14.el8 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.14.el9
  • buildah-debugsource< 2:1.37.6-1.el9_5 | < 1:1.26.9-1.el9_0 | < 2:1.33.12-2.el9_4 | < 1:1.26.9-2.module+el8.6.0+22769+fa0fe772 | < 1:1.29.5-1.module+el8.8.0+22779+ce927503 | < 1:1.29.5-1.el9_2 | < 2:1.33.12-1.module+el8.10.0+22744+7794713b | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.16.el8 | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.16.el9 | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.17.el8 | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.17.el9 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.15.el8 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.15.el9 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.14.el8 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.14.el9
  • buildah-tests< 2:1.37.6-1.el9_5 | < 1:1.26.9-1.el9_0 | < 2:1.33.12-2.el9_4 | < 1:1.26.9-2.module+el8.6.0+22769+fa0fe772 | < 1:1.29.5-1.module+el8.8.0+22779+ce927503 | < 1:1.29.5-1.el9_2 | < 2:1.33.12-1.module+el8.10.0+22744+7794713b | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.16.el8 | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.16.el9 | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.17.el8 | < 2:1.33.12-1.rhaos4.17.el9 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.15.el8 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.15.el9 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.14.el8 | < 1:1.29.5-1.rhaos4.14.el9
Suse7 products
  • buildah&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 15 SP6< 1.35.5-150500.3.25.1
  • podman&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS< 4.9.5-150500.3.31.1
  • podman&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS< 4.9.5-150500.3.31.1
  • podman&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5< 4.9.5-150500.3.31.1
  • podman&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 15 SP6< 4.9.5-150500.3.31.1
Chainguard3 products
  • buildah< 1.39.0-r2
  • podman< 5.3.2-r0
  • prometheus-podman-exporter< 1.14.0-r3
Opensuse3 products
  • buildah&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.6< 1.35.5-150500.3.25.1
  • podman&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.6< 4.9.5-150500.3.31.1
  • podman&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 5.3.2-1.1
Alpine2 products
  • buildah< 1.38.1-r0
  • podman< 5.3.2-r0
Wolfi2 products
  • buildah< 1.39.0-r2
  • podman< 5.3.2-r0
Debian1 product
  • golang-github-containers-buildahAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1.38.1+ds1-1
Github.com/containers1 product
  • buildah≥ 1.37.0, < 1.37.6 | ≥ 1.35.0, < 1.35.5 | < 1.33.12 | ≥ 1.38.0, < 1.38.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • podmanAll versions (No fix recorded)

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