CVE-2026-44210 Kata Containers have VM Escape via virtiofsd Argument Injection through Default-Enabled Pod Annotations

Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines VMs that perform like containers. Versions prior to 3.31.0 ship with a default configuration that allows pod creators to inject arbitrary command-line arguments into the virtiofsd proce...

CVE-2026-44210

Summary: CVE-2026-44210 describes a VM escape in Kata Containers prior to 3.31.0 where default pod annotations enable virtiofsd extra args and kernel params, allowing an attacker with pod-creation privileges to inject arguments that override the virtiofsd shared directory to the host root. This c...

CVE-2026-44210 Kata Containers have VM Escape via virtiofsd Argument Injection through Default-Enabled Pod Annotations

Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines VMs that perform like containers. Versions prior to 3.31.0 ship with a default configuration that allows pod creators to inject arbitrary command-line arguments into the virtiofsd proce...

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 ...

AZL-93213 CVE-2026-56852 affecting package kata-containers-cc for versions less than 3.15.0.aks0-16

A norm.Iter can enter an infinite loop when handling input containing invalid UTF-8 bytes...

AZL-93087 CVE-2026-56852 affecting package kata-containers-preview 3.27.0~preview2-1

A norm.Iter can enter an infinite loop when handling input containing invalid UTF-8 bytes...

AZL-93210 CVE-2026-56852 affecting package kata-containers for versions less than 3.32.0.kata0-1

A norm.Iter can enter an infinite loop when handling input containing invalid UTF-8 bytes...

EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : kata-containers (EulerOS-SA-2026-2594)

"According to the versions of the kata-containers package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : gRPC-Go is the Go language implementation of gRPC. Versions prior to 1.79.3 have an authorization bypass resulting from improper input...

EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : kata-containers (EulerOS-SA-2026-2534)

"According to the versions of the kata-containers package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : gRPC-Go is the Go language implementation of gRPC. Versions prior to 1.79.3 have an authorization bypass resulting from improper input...

CVE-2025-58160 affecting package kata-containers for versions less than 3.19.1.kata3-6

CVE-2025-58160 affecting package kata-containers for versions less than 3.19.1.kata3-6. A patched version of the package is available...

CVE-2026-42250 affecting package kata-containers-cc for versions less than 3.15.0.aks0-15

CVE-2026-42250 affecting package kata-containers-cc for versions less than 3.15.0.aks0-15. A patched version of the package is available...

CVE-2026-27171 affecting package kata-containers for versions less than 3.19.1.kata3-6

CVE-2026-27171 affecting package kata-containers for versions less than 3.19.1.kata3-6. A patched version of the package is available...

EulerOS 2.0 SP15 : kata-containers (EulerOS-SA-2026-2484)

"According to the versions of the kata-containers package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : gRPC-Go is the Go language implementation of gRPC. Versions prior to 1.79.3 have an authorization bypass resulting from improper input...

EulerOS 2.0 SP15 : kata-containers (EulerOS-SA-2026-2443)

"According to the versions of the kata-containers package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : gRPC-Go is the Go language implementation of gRPC. Versions prior to 1.79.3 have an authorization bypass resulting from improper input...

GO-2026-5638 Kata Containers have VM Escape via virtiofsd Argument Injection through Default-Enabled Pod Annotations in github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers

Kata Containers have VM Escape via virtiofsd Argument Injection through Default-Enabled Pod Annotations in github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers...

GO-2026-5563 Kata Container has CopyFile Policy Subversion via Symlinks in github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers

Kata Container has CopyFile Policy Subversion via Symlinks in github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers...

CVE-2025-5791 affecting package kata-containers-cc for versions less than 3.15.0.aks0-14

CVE-2025-5791 affecting package kata-containers-cc for versions less than 3.15.0.aks0-14. A patched version of the package is available...

CVE-2025-4574 affecting package kata-containers-cc for versions less than 3.15.0.aks0-14

CVE-2025-4574 affecting package kata-containers-cc for versions less than 3.15.0.aks0-14. A patched version of the package is available...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.19.34 bug fix and security update

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.19.34 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. This release includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a...

GO-2026-5042 Kata guest escape: runtime-rs guest-root to host-root escape via virtiofs in github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers

Kata guest escape: runtime-rs guest-root to host-root escape via virtiofs in github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers...