PT-2024-24061 · Kubevirt · Kubevirt

Zack Miele · Published 2024-04-03 · Updated 2024-06-05 · CVE-2024-31420

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions KubeVirt (affected versions not specified)

Description A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in KubeVirt, allowing an attacker with access to a virtual machine guest on a node with DownwardMetrics enabled to cause a denial of service. This can be achieved by issuing a high number of calls to vm-dump-metrics --virtio and then deleting the virtual machine.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-31420

GHSA-VJHF-6XFR-5P9G

GO-2024-2688

Affected Products

Kubevirt

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-vjhf-6xfr-5p9g · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GO-2024-2688 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-31420 · Security Note
• https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272951 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1775527291432374533 · Twitter Post
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vjhf-6xfr-5p9g · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-31420 · Note