{"document":{"aggregate_severity":{"namespace":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/","text":"moderate"},"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright 2024 SUSE LLC. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"summary","text":"SUSE CVE-2025-4437","title":"Title"},{"category":"description","text":"There's a vulnerability in the CRI-O application where when container is launched with securityContext.runAsUser specifying a non-existent user, CRI-O attempts to create the user, reading the container's entire /etc/passwd file into memory. If this file is excessively large, it can cause the a high memory consumption leading applications to be killed due to out-of-memory. As a result a denial-of-service can be achieved, possibly disrupting other pods and services running in the same host.","title":"Description of the CVE"},{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).","title":"Terms of use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/contact/","name":"SUSE Product Security Team","namespace":"https://www.suse.com/"},"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"CVE-2025-4437","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4437"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Security Ratings","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Bug 1245433 for CVE-2025-4437","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1245433"}],"title":"SUSE CVE CVE-2025-4437","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2025-08-20T23:34:29Z","generator":{"date":"2025-06-27T23:26:43Z","engine":{"name":"cve-database.git:bin/generate-csaf-vex.pl","version":"1"}},"id":"CVE-2025-4437","initial_release_date":"2025-06-27T23:26:43Z","revision_history":[{"date":"2025-06-27T23:26:43Z","number":"2","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-07-07T23:36:35Z","number":"3","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-08-20T23:34:29Z","number":"4","summary":"Current version"}],"status":"interim","version":"4"}}}