GHSA-vjhf-6xfr-5p9g

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    GHSA-vjhf-6xfr-5p9g

    Published: 3 Apr 2024Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    Summary: KubeVirt NULL pointer dereference flaw

    Details: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in KubeVirt. This flaw allows an attacker who has access to a virtual machine guest on a node with DownwardMetrics enabled to cause a denial of service by issuing a high number of calls to vm-dump-metrics --virtio and then deleting the virtual machine.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-31420, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-31420, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272951, https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: kubevirt.io/kubevirt

    Purl: pkg:golang/kubevirt.io/kubevirt

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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