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...