CVE-2026-7374Kubevirt: kubevirt virt-handler: privilege escalation and node compromise via symlink following vulnerability
Beschreibung
A flaw was found in KubeVirt's virt-handler component. This vulnerability allows an authenticated OpenShift user with edit permissions in a single namespace to exploit improper symlink validation when connecting to virtual machine console sockets. By replacing the console socket with a symlink to the host's container runtime (CRI-O) socket, an attacker can hijack virt-handler's privileged connection. This enables the attacker to access any Unix socket on the host, potentially leading to full control of the node and the entire cluster.
Daten: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Wiedergegeben wie in der Quelle, auf Englisch.
Betroffene Produkte und Versionen
Referenzen und Patches
- RHSA-2026:20720 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2026:20736 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2026:20763 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2026:20767 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2026:20782 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2026:20825 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2026:20866 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2026:20886 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2026:20890 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2026:20975 vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-7374 vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2463728 issue-tracking
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-7374.json