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8 vulnerabilities found for kata-containers by kata-containers
CVE-2026-41326 (GCVE-0-2026-41326)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-04-24 18:46 – Updated: 2026-04-27 13:43
VLAI?
Title
Kata Containers: CopyFile Policy Subversion via Symlinks
Summary
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. From v3.4.0 to v3.28.0, an oversight in the CopyFile policy (and perhaps the CopyFile handler) allows untrusted hosts to write to arbitrary locations inside the guest workload image. This can be used to overwrite binaries inside the guest and exfiltrate data from containers; even those running inside CVMs. This vulnerability is fixed in v3.29.0.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-61 - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| kata-containers | kata-containers |
Affected:
>= 3.4.0, < 3.29.0
|
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CVE-2026-24834 (GCVE-0-2026-24834)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-02-19 15:57 – Updated: 2026-02-26 14:44
VLAI?
Title
Kata Container to Guest micro VM privilege escalation
Summary
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In versions prior to 3.27.0, an issue in Kata with Cloud Hypervisor allows a user of the container to modify the file system used by the Guest micro VM ultimately achieving arbitrary code execution as root in said VM. The current understanding is this doesn’t impact the security of the Host or of other containers / VMs running on that Host (note that arm64 QEMU lacks NVDIMM read-only support: It is believed that until the upstream QEMU gains this capability, a guest write could reach the image file). Version 3.27.0 patches the issue.
Severity ?
9.4 (Critical)
CWE
- CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Affected:
< 3.27.0
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CVE-2026-24054 (GCVE-0-2026-24054)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-01-29 17:16 – Updated: 2026-01-29 21:24
VLAI?
Title
Kata Containers Runtime: Host block device can be hotplugged to the VM if the container image is malformed or contains no layers
Summary
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In versions prior to 3.26.0, when a container image is malformed or contains no layers, containerd falls back to bind-mounting an empty snapshotter directory for the container rootfs. When the Kata runtime attempts to mount the container rootfs, the bind mount causes the rootfs to be detected as a block device, leading to the underlying device being hotplugged to the guest. This can cause filesystem-level errors on the host due to double inode allocation, and may lead to the host's block device being mounted as read-only. Version 3.26.0 contains a patch for the issue.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-754 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Affected:
< 3.26.0
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CVE-2025-58354 (GCVE-0-2025-58354)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-09-23 21:08 – Updated: 2025-09-24 13:22
VLAI?
Title
Kata Containers coco-tdx malicious host can circumvent initdata verification
Summary
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In Kata Containers versions from 3.20.0 and before, a malicious host can circumvent initdata verification. On TDX systems running confidential guests, a malicious host can selectively fail IO operations to skip initdata verification. This allows an attacker to launch arbitrary workloads while being able to attest successfully to Trustee impersonating any benign workload. This issue has been patched in Kata Containers version 3.21.0.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-754 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||||||
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| kata-containers | kata-containers |
Affected:
< 3.21.0
|
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CVE-2026-41326 (GCVE-0-2026-41326)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-24 18:46 – Updated: 2026-04-27 13:43
VLAI?
Title
Kata Containers: CopyFile Policy Subversion via Symlinks
Summary
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. From v3.4.0 to v3.28.0, an oversight in the CopyFile policy (and perhaps the CopyFile handler) allows untrusted hosts to write to arbitrary locations inside the guest workload image. This can be used to overwrite binaries inside the guest and exfiltrate data from containers; even those running inside CVMs. This vulnerability is fixed in v3.29.0.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-61 - UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| kata-containers | kata-containers |
Affected:
>= 3.4.0, < 3.29.0
|
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CVE-2026-24834 (GCVE-0-2026-24834)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-19 15:57 – Updated: 2026-02-26 14:44
VLAI?
Title
Kata Container to Guest micro VM privilege escalation
Summary
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In versions prior to 3.27.0, an issue in Kata with Cloud Hypervisor allows a user of the container to modify the file system used by the Guest micro VM ultimately achieving arbitrary code execution as root in said VM. The current understanding is this doesn’t impact the security of the Host or of other containers / VMs running on that Host (note that arm64 QEMU lacks NVDIMM read-only support: It is believed that until the upstream QEMU gains this capability, a guest write could reach the image file). Version 3.27.0 patches the issue.
Severity ?
9.4 (Critical)
CWE
- CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Assigner
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CVE-2026-24054 (GCVE-0-2026-24054)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-29 17:16 – Updated: 2026-01-29 21:24
VLAI?
Title
Kata Containers Runtime: Host block device can be hotplugged to the VM if the container image is malformed or contains no layers
Summary
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In versions prior to 3.26.0, when a container image is malformed or contains no layers, containerd falls back to bind-mounting an empty snapshotter directory for the container rootfs. When the Kata runtime attempts to mount the container rootfs, the bind mount causes the rootfs to be detected as a block device, leading to the underlying device being hotplugged to the guest. This can cause filesystem-level errors on the host due to double inode allocation, and may lead to the host's block device being mounted as read-only. Version 3.26.0 contains a patch for the issue.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-754 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Assigner
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CVE-2025-58354 (GCVE-0-2025-58354)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-23 21:08 – Updated: 2025-09-24 13:22
VLAI?
Title
Kata Containers coco-tdx malicious host can circumvent initdata verification
Summary
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In Kata Containers versions from 3.20.0 and before, a malicious host can circumvent initdata verification. On TDX systems running confidential guests, a malicious host can selectively fail IO operations to skip initdata verification. This allows an attacker to launch arbitrary workloads while being able to attest successfully to Trustee impersonating any benign workload. This issue has been patched in Kata Containers version 3.21.0.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-754 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Assigner
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| URL | Tags | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
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