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
6.9 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-24 13:21 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-754 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7920 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
kata-containers kata-containers Affected: < 3.21.0
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