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RHEA-2026:53670

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2026-08-11 17:00 - Updated: 2026-08-14 10:31

Summary

Red Hat Enhancement Advisory: OpenShift Virtualization v4.12 Images

Severity

Important

Notes

Topic: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization release v4.12 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.

Details: OpenShift Virtualization is Red Hat's virtualization solution designed for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. This advisory contains OpenShift Virtualization v4.12 images.

Terms of Use: This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

CVE-2026-13622

A symlink following vulnerability was found in KubeVirt's virt-handler migration proxy. During live migration, virt-handler dials Unix sockets inside the target virt-launcher pod via /proc/<pid>/root/ paths using net.Dial() without symlink protection. These socket paths reside in qemu-owned directories writable by the virt-launcher user. An attacker with namespace edit and pods/exec permissions can replace a migration proxy socket with a symlink to the host CRI-O socket. Because virt-handler runs as root in the host mount namespace, absolute symlink targets resolve against the host filesystem, and the bidirectional io.Copy proxy relays attacker-controlled bytes to the container runtime, enabling full node compromise.

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected products

Fixed 1 product

Product	Identifier	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12:registry.redhat.io/container-native-virtualization/virt-handler@sha256:97a474d86d9e3907a0c16de48d0d13e43c0cf2f22161ea60c6df19e37c519df7_amd64		—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround

Known not affected 8 products

Product	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12:registry.redhat.io/container-native-virtualization/libguestfs-tools@sha256:5c0fe47c22b92a32d7779ea5c7707a4fc74aebbe04b852e27535983f6fa2667c_amd64	—	Workaround
Unresolved product id: Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12:registry.redhat.io/container-native-virtualization/virt-api@sha256:2872ea0e0ac41a1419e31341909f64c4420fdedf96e504928e087ac017ec7323_amd64	—	Workaround
Unresolved product id: Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12:registry.redhat.io/container-native-virtualization/virt-artifacts-server@sha256:4882a54e614fbe8d79f71845a64ad74d128c8355fb4d824974b823a3d1468eb7_amd64	—	Workaround
Unresolved product id: Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12:registry.redhat.io/container-native-virtualization/virt-controller@sha256:817da590f3b5c4054a8b190cd1eda971dafea465a10c8f5b0e3db2fa4e0d444c_amd64	—	Workaround
Unresolved product id: Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12:registry.redhat.io/container-native-virtualization/virt-exportproxy@sha256:6b1ba5980098dab51cc53f62bf6f96dc9971d48d949057c231f65ba70217fbcd_amd64	—	Workaround
Unresolved product id: Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12:registry.redhat.io/container-native-virtualization/virt-exportserver@sha256:81f9e77dc20eaceabb2cfaca627002adc65136d7a08c6837a3b259b9ac417d27_amd64	—	Workaround
Unresolved product id: Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12:registry.redhat.io/container-native-virtualization/virt-launcher@sha256:52938c4bb6f73c485db89bb3703a0499fd2cc969e29e2f7587d43447725cf396_amd64	—	Workaround
Unresolved product id: Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12:registry.redhat.io/container-native-virtualization/virt-operator@sha256:f64afe86104f04f0cab7fa3c489c6939b5bb92914d50341cb2f656cea7eb298f_amd64	—	Workaround

Threats

Impact Important

References

6 references

URL	Category
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2026:53670	self
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/a…	self
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-13622	self
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2494142	external
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-13622	external
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-13622	external

Acknowledgments

Red Hat Huzaifa Sidhpurwala

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CVE-2026-13622 (GCVE-0-2026-13622)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-12 20:46 – Updated: 2026-08-14 10:01

Title

Kubevirt: virt-handler-rhel9: kubevirt: virt-handler migration proxy follows symlinks allowing container escape to host

Summary

Severity

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-13 19:21 UTC

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

redhat

References

13 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2026:53670	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:51031	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53655	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53671	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53684	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53721	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53728	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53763	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53797	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53826	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53838	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-13622	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2494142	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

11 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12	Unaffected: 1785837722 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.12::el8
Red Hat	Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.13	Unaffected: 1786346596 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.13::el9
Red Hat	Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.14	Unaffected: 1786309624 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.14::el9
Red Hat	Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.15	Unaffected: 1786347656 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.15::el9
Red Hat	Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.16	Unaffected: 1786030071 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.16::el9
Red Hat	Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.17	Unaffected: 1786348529 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.17::el9
Red Hat	Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.18	Unaffected: 1786130068 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.18::el9
Red Hat	Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.19	Unaffected: 1786334215 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.19::el9
Red Hat	Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.20	Unaffected: 1785831334 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.20::el9
Red Hat	Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.21	Unaffected: 1785829701 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.21::el9
Red Hat	Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.22	Unaffected: 1785140336 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.22::el9

Date Public

2026-08-12 00:00

Credits

This issue was discovered by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala (Red Hat).

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RHEA-2026:53670

CVE-2026-13622 (GCVE-0-2026-13622)

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