CVE-2020-27151

CVE-2020-27151 affects the Kata Containers runtime through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries provided via annotations without any validation, allowing a user with cluster access to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on worker nodes. The connected ...

CVE-2026-41326

Kata Containers CVE-2026-41326 affects versions v3.4.0–v3.28.0 due to an oversight in the CopyFile policy/handler that allows untrusted hosts to write to arbitrary locations inside the guest workload image. This can overwrite binaries inside the guest and exfiltrate data from containers, includin...

CVE-2026-24834

CVE-2026-24834 affects Kata Containers before 3.27.0. A flaw in the interaction with Cloud Hypervisor allows a container user to modify the Guest micro VM’s filesystem, potentially achieving arbitrary code execution as root inside the VM. The host and other containers/VMs on the same host are not...

CVE-2026-24054

Kata Containers Runtime (kata-containers) versions prior to 3.26.0 are affected. When a container image is malformed or has no layers, containerd bind-mounts an empty snapshotter directory for the container rootfs; the Kata runtime then mounts rootfs and may detect it as a block device, causing t...