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Permalink CVE-2024-31420
6.5 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): NETWORK
  • Attack complexity (AC): LOW
  • Privileges required (PR): LOW
  • User interaction (UI): NONE
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): NONE
  • Integrity impact (I): NONE
  • Availability impact (A): HIGH
created 6 months ago
Cnv: dos through repeatedly calling vm-dump-metrics until virt handler crashes

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in KubeVirt. This flaw allows an attacker who has access to a virtual machine guest on a node with DownwardMetrics enabled to cause a denial of service by issuing a high number of calls to vm-dump-metrics --virtio and then deleting the virtual machine.

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Affected products

cnv
  • ==4.15.0
  • ==4.15.0
kubevirt

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pkgs.kubevirt

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