CVE-2020-14316

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-07-29 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

A flaw was found in kubevirt 0.29 and earlier. Virtual Machine Instances (VMIs) can be used to gain access to the host's filesystem. Successful exploitation allows an attacker to assume the privileges of the VM process on the host system. In worst-case scenarios an attacker can read and modify any file on the system where the VMI is running. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Affected products

kubevirt: through 0.29
RedHat Openshift Virtualization: 1

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1848951
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1848951

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