Database/Container, Kubernetes & orchestration
containerd: CRI trusts CDI annotations inside untrusted checkpoint image metadata
CVE-2026-53492Container, Kubernetes & orchestrationcurated
Impact
CRI trusts CDI annotations inside untrusted checkpoint image metadata; can inject device access (directly relevant to GPU CDI devices)
Who can reach it
Malicious checkpoint image
What to do
Rolling containerd upgrade with node drain; disable checkpoint import. High priority for GPU hosts since CDI is how GPUs are injected
References
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