CVE-2026-73860 PUBLISHED

CRIU: Parasite hijack triggered by snapshot of malicious software

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 13.08.2026 Published: 06.11.2026 Updated: 06.11.2026

CRIU is a checkpoint and restore tool for Linux. Prior to 4.2.1, CRIU injects a syscall;int3 sequence at the start of the first executable virtual memory area and resumes the target process to execute parasite code. Malicious code in the target process can keep an rseq critical section armed over that injection point so the kernel's restartable-sequence abort redirects execution to an attacker-controlled callback when CRIU resumes the process. In container snapshot environments, the hijacked parasite runs with seccomp disabled and a relaxed AppArmor profile and supplies trusted data to the privileged CRIU process, which can enable higher-privilege code execution. This issue is fixed in version 4.2.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 5.4

Product Status

Vendor checkpoint-restore
Product criu
Versions
  • Version < 4.2.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-705: Incorrect Control Flow Scoping CWE