vulnerability / NVI-00015305 / Revision 2
Kata Container to Guest micro VM privilege escalation
GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtime. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.
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01 / Meaning
Why it matters
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8.8 medium
GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.
As of · GitHub Advisory Database
9.3 CRITICAL (3.1)
security-advisories@github.com severity; no combined Null risk score.
8.8 HIGH (3.1)
nvd@nist.gov severity; no combined Null risk score.
9.3 CRITICAL (3.1)
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c severity; no combined Null risk score.
02 / Applicability
The affected context
Affected versions, configuration prerequisites and known exclusions are public. Confirm each one against the deployed service.
github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtime
source listed< 0.0.0-20260219090056-6a672503973b
### Summary An issue in Kata with Cloud Hypervisor allows a user of the container to modify the file system used by the Guest micro VM ultimately achieving arbitrary code execution as root in said VM. The current understinding is this doesn’t impact the security of the Host or of other containers / VMs running on that Host (note that arm64 QEMU lacks NVDIMM read-only support: It is believed that until the upstream QEMU gains this capability, a guest write could reach the image file). ### Details _Linux virtio-pmem_ The `virtio-pmem` probe path always registers the region as a generic pagemap that supports asynchronous flushes, but it never marks the region as read-only. Only the `ND_REGION_PAGEMAP` and `ND_REGION_ASYNC` bits are set before the region is created, so `nd_region->ro always` stays cleared and the block device is left writable. Later, `pmem_attach_disk()` wires the region into the block layer with full read/write semantics – the block device operations call `pmem_do_write()` which performs cache-flushed memcpy operations directly into the host-provided shared memory window. `nvdimm_check_and_set_ro()` would set the disk read-only if the region had been flagged as s
03 / Response
What to do next
- investigate
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04 / Limits
What this report cannot establish
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05 / Provenance
Sources you can inspect
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- GHSA-wwj6-vghv-5p64 ↗
GitHub Advisory Database · vendor advisory
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- CVE-2026-24834 ↗
NIST National Vulnerability Database · official catalog
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Public revision history
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- Revision 2 ·
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- Revision 1 ·
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