PT-2026-52088 · Red Hat · Red Hat Openshift Virtualization 4

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala

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Published

2026-06-24

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Updated

2026-06-24

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CVE-2026-13208

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
A flaw was found in KubeVirt's virt-handler domain notify server. The gRPC handlers for HandleDomainEvent and HandleK8SEvent derive the VMI identity (namespace/name) solely from the request body without validating it against the connection's origin. Each virt-launcher pod connects through a per-VMI pipe socket, but no identity tag is propagated from the pipe path to the server handlers. This allows a compromised virt-launcher process to send forged domain lifecycle events for any other VMI scheduled on the same node, causing virt-handler to erroneously update that VMI's state and disrupt its lifecycle management.

Fix

Improper Authentication

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-13208

Affected Products

Red Hat Openshift Virtualization 4