CVE-2026-7374 (GCVE-0-2026-7374)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-26 13:14 – Updated: 2026-05-27 07:02
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Title
Kubevirt: kubevirt virt-handler: privilege escalation and node compromise via symlink following vulnerability
Summary
A flaw was found in KubeVirt's virt-handler component. This vulnerability allows an authenticated OpenShift user with edit permissions in a single namespace to exploit improper symlink validation when connecting to virtual machine console sockets. By replacing the console socket with a symlink to the host's container runtime (CRI-O) socket, an attacker can hijack virt-handler's privileged connection. This enables the attacker to access any Unix socket on the host, potentially leading to full control of the node and the entire cluster.
Severity
9.9 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20736 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20763 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20782 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20825 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20866 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20886 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20890 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20975 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-7374 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2463728 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12 Unaffected: 1779375376 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.12::el8
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Red Hat Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.13 Unaffected: 1778999881 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.13::el9
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Red Hat Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.14 Unaffected: 1779321599 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.14::el9
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Red Hat Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.15 Unaffected: 1778859977 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.15::el9
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Red Hat Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.16 Unaffected: 1778861274 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.16::el9
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Red Hat Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.17 Unaffected: 1779174925 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.17::el9
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Red Hat Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.18 Unaffected: 1778887155 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.18::el9
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Red Hat Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.2 Unaffected: 1779288737 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.20::el9
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Red Hat Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.21 Unaffected: 1779420069 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:container_native_virtualization:4.21::el9
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Date Public
2026-05-26 12:30
Credits
This issue was discovered by Sarah Bennert (Red Hat) and Stoyan Nikolov (Red Hat).
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