Improper Privilege Management

kubevirt.io/kubevirt is vulnerable to improper privilege management. The vulnerability is due to excessive permissions granted to the virt-handler service account, which allows an attacker to abuse update and patch capabilities to force VMI migration or schedule privileged pods onto a compromised...

AZL-69790 CVE-2025-64436 affecting package kubevirt for versions less than 1.6.3-1

KubeVirt is a virtual machine management add-on for Kubernetes. In 1.5.0 and earlier, the permissions granted to the virt-handler service account, such as the ability to update VMI and patch nodes, could be abused to force a VMI migration to an attacker-controlled node. This vulnerability could...

CVE-2025-64436

KubeVirt is a virtual machine management add-on for Kubernetes. In 1.5.0 and earlier, the permissions granted to the virt-handler service account, such as the ability to update VMI and patch nodes, could be abused to force a VMI migration to an attacker-controlled node. This vulnerability could...

CVE-2025-64436 KubeVirt Excessive Role Permissions Could Enable Unauthorized VMI Migrations Between Nodes

KubeVirt is a virtual machine management add-on for Kubernetes. In 1.5.0 and earlier, the permissions granted to the virt-handler service account, such as the ability to update VMI and patch nodes, could be abused to force a VMI migration to an attacker-controlled node. This vulnerability could...

CVE-2025-64436

KubeVirt CVE-2025-64436 affects the virt-handler service account in KubeVirt up to version 1.5.0, where overprivileged permissions (e.g., updating VMI, patching nodes) could be abused to migrate a VMI to an attacker-controlled node or mark all nodes as unschedulable, potentially forcing privilege...

PT-2025-45439

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions KubeVirt versions prior to 1.5.0 Description KubeVirt, a virtual machine management add-on for Kubernetes, has an issue where permissions granted to the virt-handler service account could be misused. Specifically, the ability to update VMIs an...