CVE-2022-0532: Kubernetes Cri-O

Medium severity, CVSS 4.2. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An incorrect sysctls validation vulnerability was found in CRI-O 1.18 and earlier. The sysctls from the list of "safe" sysctls specified for the cluster will be applied to the host if an attacker is able to create a pod with a hostIPC and hostNetwork kernel namespace.

Affected products

• Kubernetes Cri-O: up to and including 1.18
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 4.0 only

Published 2022-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.