CVE-2024-40635

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Published 2025-03-17 · Modified 2026-02-04

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

containerd has an integer overflow in User ID handling in github.com/containerd/containerd

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.7.24~ds1-6`
sid	Fixed	`1.7.24~ds1-6`
forky	Fixed	`1.7.24~ds1-6`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.4.13~ds1-1~deb11u5`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.6.20~ds1-1+deb12u2`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	github.com/containerd/containerd/v2	`<2.0.4`	`2.0.4`
Go	github.com/containerd/containerd	`>=1.7.0-beta.0,<1.7.27`	`1.7.27`
Go	github.com/containerd/containerd	`<1.6.38`	`1.6.38`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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