CVE-2024-31420

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference6 documents5 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.1%
top 71.95%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Kubevirt.io Kubevirt
Timeline
PublishedApr 3
Latest updateJun 5

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages1 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
KubeVirt NULL pointer dereference flaw in kubevirt.io/kubevirt↗2024-06-05
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CVEList
Cnv: dos through repeatedly calling vm-dump-metrics until virt handler crashes↗2024-04-03
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OSV
KubeVirt NULL pointer dereference flaw↗2024-04-03
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GHSA
KubeVirt NULL pointer dereference flaw↗2024-04-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
cnv: DoS through repeatedly calling vm-dump-metrics until virt handler crashes↗2024-04-03
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