Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability · CVE-2026-17113

A flaw was found in CRI-O's container-creation environment-variable handling ( in , consumed by in ).

Published Aug 24, 2026 · catalog updated Oct 21, 2026 · the affected product

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No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2026-17113. EPSS is 0.11%. Act only if a listed version of the affected product is installed.

Gaps on this record

  • No plain product name is stored. The page cannot tell you which product to check.
  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
Severity
Medium6.0
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.11%
Remediation
Advisory link
Affected products
See sources for product scope

A flaw was found in CRI-O's container-creation environment-variable handling ( in , consumed by in ). When a request supplies a CRI field, CRI-O falls back to using the target OCI image's entries unfiltered, in contrast to the normal merge path, which validates each entry for a form before use. An OCI image whose contains an entry with no character (e.g. a bare string) causes CRI-O to split that entry into a single-element slice and then index its second element, which is out of range. This triggers an unrecovered Go runtime panic in the daemon process, crashing it and terminating the container-runtime service for all workloads on the node until it is restarted.

No affected version ranges are stored yet. Use the vendor advisory before you decide this record does not apply.

How to fix CVE-2026-17113

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2026-17113. EPSS is 0.11%. Act only if a listed version of the affected product is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Affected version ranges are not on this record. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

CWE-1287. EPSS 0.11%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Aug 24, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Detected

    A flaw was found in CRI-O's container-creation environment-variable handling ( in , consumed by in ). When a request supplies a CRI field, CRI-O falls back to using the target OCI image's entries unfiltered, in contrast to the normal merge path, which validates each entry for a form before use. An OCI image whose contains an entry with no character (e.g. a bare string) causes CRI-O to split that e

  2. Oct 21, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    A flaw was found in CRI-O's container-creation environment-variable handling ( in , consumed by in ). When a request supplies a CRI field, CRI-O falls back to using the target OCI image's entries unfiltered, in contrast to the normal merge path, which validates each entry for a form before use. An OCI image whose contains an entry with no character (e.g. a bare string) causes CRI-O to split that e

  3. Oct 21, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    A flaw was found in CRI-O's container-creation environment-variable handling ( in , consumed by in ). When a request supplies a CRI field, CRI-O falls back to using the target OCI image's entries unfiltered, in contrast to the normal merge path, which validates each entry for a form before use. An OCI image whose contains an entry with no character (e.g. a bare string) causes CRI-O to split that e

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2026-17113

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2026-17113

    30-day exploitation probability 0.11%

    first.org
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2026-17113

    A flaw was found in CRI-O's container-creation environment-variable handling ( in , consumed by in ). When a request supplies a CRI field, CRI-O falls back

    nvd.nist.gov

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 23, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.