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...

KubeVirt Excessive Role Permissions Could Enable Unauthorized VMI Migrations Between Nodes

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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...