CVE-2026-50540

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 annotation. The runtime accepts an...

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 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 annotation. The runtime accepts an...