CVE-2025-64434Improper Authentication in Kubevirt

Severity
6.3MEDIUMNVD
CNA4.7
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.46%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedNov 7
Latest updateNov 17

Description

KubeVirt is a virtual machine management add-on for Kubernetes. Prior to 1.5.3 and 1.6.1, due to the peer verification logic in virt-handler (via verifyPeerCert), an attacker who compromises a virt-handler instance, could exploit these shared credentials to impersonate virt-api and execute privileged operations against other virt-handler instances potentially compromising the integrity and availability of the VM managed by it. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.5.3 and 1.6.1.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages3 packages

CVEListV5kubevirt/kubevirt< 1.5.3+1
NVDkubevirt/kubevirt< 1.5.3+1
Gokubevirt.io/kubevirt1.6.0-alpha.01.6.1+3

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
KubeVirt Improper TLS Certificate Management Handling Allows API Identity Spoofing in kubevirt.io/kubevirt2025-11-17
CVEList
KubeVirt Improper TLS Certificate Management Handling Allows API Identity Spoofing2025-11-07
GHSA
KubeVirt's Improper TLS Certificate Management Handling Allows API Identity Spoofing2025-11-06
OSV
KubeVirt's Improper TLS Certificate Management Handling Allows API Identity Spoofing2025-11-06

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Microsoft
KubeVirt Improper TLS Certificate Management Handling Allows API Identity Spoofing2025-11-11
Red Hat
kubevirt: KubeVirt: API Identity Spoofing Vulnerability2025-11-07
CVE-2025-64434 — Improper Authentication in Kubevirt | cvebase