CVE-2025-47290 Containerd vulnerable to host filesystem access during image unpack

What is CVE-2025-47290?

CVE-2025-47290 is a high-severity vulnerability in containerd, published on 20 May 2025.

Official description

containerd is a container runtime. A time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability was found in containerd v2.1.0. While unpacking an image during an image pull, specially crafted container images could arbitrarily modify the host file system. The only affected version of containerd is 2.1.0. Other versions of containerd are not affected. This bug has been fixed in containerd 2.1.1. Users should update to this version to resolve the issue. As a workaround, ensure that only trusted images are used and that only trusted users have permissions to import images.

Weakness: CWE-367

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-47290?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/containerd/containerd/v2. It affects 1 product.

Products include Linuxfoundation Containerd.

How do I fix CVE-2025-47290?

Upgrade github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 to 2.1.1 or later.

Is CVE-2025-47290 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-47290 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in containerd

• CVE-2026-53488 containerd CRI — image-config `LABEL` flows to restart-monitor `binary://` logger: host-root command execution from an image pull Critical 9.4
• CVE-2026-53492 containerd CRI checkpoint restore CDI annotation smuggling High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53489 containerd: Arbitrary host CRI log file read via symlink following in CRI checkpoint restore High 8.2
• CVE-2026-46680 containerd user ID handling bypass allows runAsNonRoot evasion High 7.3
• CVE-2024-25621 containerd affected by a local privilege escalation via wide permissions on CRI directory High 7.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-47290, GHSA-cm76-qm8v-3j95, GO-2025-3699, MINI-65jq-g62h-p52c, openSUSE-SU-2025:15146-1.