CVE-2022-0811A flaw was found in CRI-O in the way it set kernel options for a pod. This issue allows anyone with rights to deploy a pod on a Kubernetes…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 19.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A flaw was found in CRI-O in the way it set kernel options for a pod. This issue allows anyone with rights to deploy a pod on a Kubernetes cluster that uses the CRI-O runtime to achieve a container escape and arbitrary code execution as root on the cluster node, where the malicious pod was deployed.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 15 days later
· 15 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 19.0% · top 2.6% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
CRI-O
- affected cri-o 1.24.0, cri-o 1.23.2, cri-o 1.22.3, cri-o 1.21.6, cri-o 1.20.7, cri-o 1.19.6
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/cri-o/cri-oGHSA-6x2m-w449-qwx7 (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2059475 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/security/advisories/GHSA-6x2m-w449-qwx7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-1349 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-6x2m-w449-qwx7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-0811)Record last updated .