CVE-2026-50540

Kata Containers CVE-2026-50540 affects kata-runtime prior to 4.0.0, where an unvalidated io.katacontainers.config_path pod annotation lets a pod user load a host TOML file. This enables selecting attacker-controlled binaries (hypervisor or virtio-fs daemon) on the host, leading to root code execu...

CVE-2026-50540

A flaw was found in Kata Containers, affecting both its Rust and Go runtimes. An authenticated pod user can exploit this by setting the io.katacontainers.configpath annotation to an arbitrary configuration file on the host. This allows the attacker to control privileged runtime settings, leading ...