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High · 8.1 CVE-2026-100838 EUVD-2026-87850GHSA-h734-rggh-79xqGHSA-rh99-wc69-c255GO-2026-5624

Contrast before 1.19.1 CopyFile Policy Symlink Subversion

Published Sep 27, 2026 · Updated Oct 8, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

Contrast is a confidential-computing runtime for Kubernetes. In versions before 1.19.1, the Kata agent policies generated by the Contrast CLI contained a flaw in the CopyFile verification that allowed arbitrary writes to the guest root filesystem. A malicious process on the untrusted host able to connect to the Kata agent VSOCK could issue a series of CopyFile requests to overwrite security-critical files in the guest or trick the workload into disclosing sensitive data, effectively amounting to a full guest takeover. Users unable to upgrade can apply an equivalent rego policy fix passed to 'contrast generate --policy'.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
edgelesssys contrast < 1.19.1 1.19.1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/edgelesssys/contrast < 1.19.1 1.19.1 GHSA-rh99-wc69-c255

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