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
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Workaround

Do not run untrusted images with krun and passt until a fixed crun is released.

History

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:30:00 +0000

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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
Title Crun: crun: rootful krun with passt executes container payload as host root
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat hummingbird
Weaknesses CWE-269
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat hummingbird
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-10T08:24:50.971Z

Reserved: 2026-09-01T03:55:17.620Z

Link: CVE-2026-84042

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-10T09:17:03.260

Modified: 2026-09-10T09:17:03.260

Link: CVE-2026-84042

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-10T09:30:10Z

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