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

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.

Published: 2025-01-22 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2024-11218 is rated Moderate Risk (47.7/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.17%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-11218

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-03-02 0.07% 0.17% +0.10%
2 2025-11-21 0.30% 0.07% -0.24%
3 2025-11-18 0.30%

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-11218

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
8.6 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
1.8 6.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-11218

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2024-11218

GHSA-5vpc-35f4-r8w6 · Severity: high · Ecosystem: go — Buildah allows build breakout using malicious Containerfiles and concurrent builds

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-11218

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-2024-11218: 2 source package rows (buildah, podman); 6 state rows across 3 repos (3.21-community, 3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 6, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-11218
debian not yet assigned CVE-2024-11218 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (golang-github-containers-buildah), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-11218
redhat high https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11218
suse high CVE-2024-11218 severity important: SUSE including 314 source package names (2.0.4-5.5.237:podman-4.9.5-150500.3.31.1, 2.1.3-5.11:coreutils-9.4-slfo.1.1_2.1, …), 497 product×package rows across 93 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, … (93 product lines)): Fixed 266, Known Affected 231. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11218/
ubuntu medium CVE-2024-11218 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (podman), 7 status rows across 7 suites (focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream): DNE 4, needs-triage 2, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-11218

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-11218

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2024-11218

URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0830
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0878
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0922
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0923
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1186
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1187
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1188
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1189
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1207
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1275
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1295
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1296
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1372
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1453
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1707
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1713
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1908
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1910
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1914
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2441
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2443
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2454
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2456
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2701
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2703
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2710
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2712
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3577
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3798
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11218
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2326231
https://github.com/containers/buildah/pull/5918
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