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12 known vulnerabilities.

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  • Medium 5.7

    Kata Containers: Unauthorized mem-agent ttRPC methods let an untrusted host tamper with confidential-guest memory

    Kata Containers is an open source implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In versions prior to 4.0.0, the kata-agent is vulnerable to an authorization bypass in confidential-guest memory management. In Confidential C…

  • Critical 9.2

    Kata guest escape: runtime-rs guest-root to host-root escape via virtiofs

    Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. Prior to 3.31.0, the runtime-rs standalone virtio-fs path is vulnerable to a guest-root to host-root escape. In…

  • Critical 9.6

    Kata Containers: Config Path Annotation Arbitrary File Loading

    Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. Prior to version 4.0.0, kata-runtime is vulnerable to host code execution via an unvalidated configuration path…

  • Medium 5.8

    Kata Containers have VM Escape via virtiofsd Argument Injection through Default-Enabled Pod Annotations

    Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. Versions prior to 3.31.0 ship with a default configuration that allows pod creators to inject arbitrary command…

  • High 8.2

    Kata Containers: CopyFile Policy Subversion via Symlinks

    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…

  • Critical 9.4

    Kata Container to Guest micro VM privilege escalation

    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 th…

  • High 8.8

    Kata Containers Runtime: Host block device can be hotplugged to the VM if the container image is malformed or contains no layers

    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 t…

  • Medium 6.9

    Kata Containers coco-tdx malicious host can circumvent initdata verification

    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 T…

  • Low 3.8
    CVE-2020-2023 Public exploit

    Kata Containers - Containers have access to the guest root filesystem device

    Kata Containers doesn't restrict containers from accessing the guest's root filesystem device. Malicious containers can exploit this to gain code execution on the guest and masquerade as the kata-agent. This issue affects Kata Containers 1.11 versions earlier…

  • High 7.8

    Kata Containers - Guests can trick the kata-runtime into mounting the container image on any host path

    A malicious guest compromised before a container creation (e.g. a malicious guest image or a guest running multiple containers) can trick the kata runtime into mounting the untrusted container filesystem on any host path, potentially allowing for code executi…

  • High 8.8

    Kata Containers - Cloud Hypervisor guests persist filesystem changes to the underlying host image file

    Kata Containers before 1.11.0 on Cloud Hypervisor persists guest filesystem changes to the underlying image file on the host. A malicious guest can overwrite the image file to gain control of all subsequent guest VMs. Since Kata Containers uses the same VM im…

  • Medium 6.5

    Kata Containers - Guests can trick the kata-runtime into unmounting any mount point on the host

    An improper link resolution vulnerability affects Kata Containers versions prior to 1.11.0. Upon container teardown, a malicious guest can trick the kata-runtime into unmounting any mount point on the host and all mount points underneath it, potentiality resu…