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CVE-2020-1701

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-05-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

A flaw was found in the KubeVirt main virt-handler versions before 0.26.0 regarding the access permissions of virt-handler. An attacker with access to create VMs could attach any secret within their namespace, allowing them to read the contents of that secret.

Affected products

• kubevirt: before 0.26.0 — fixed in 0.26.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: kubevirt 0.26.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1792092
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1792092

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