Kata-containers vulnerabilities
We track 6 vulnerabilities in Kata-containers products. 6 are rated high or critical, and none are known to be exploited. The most recent was published on August 7, 2026.
Latest Kata-containers vulnerabilities
- 9.2 Critical severity
kata-containers: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. Prior to 3.31.0, the runtime-rs standalone virtio-fs path is vulnerable to a guest-root to host-root escape. In
- 9.6 Critical severity
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight…
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. Prior to version 4.0.0, kata-runtime is vulnerable to host code execution via an unvalidated configuration path
- 9.9 Critical severity
kata-containers: Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. Versions prior to 3.31.0 ship with a default configuration that allows pod creators to inject arbitrary command-
- 8.2 High severity
kata-containers: UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. From v3.4.0 to v3.28.0, an oversight in the CopyFile policy (and perhaps the CopyFile handler) allows untrusted
- 8.8 High severity
kata-containers: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In versions prior to 3.27.0, an issue in Kata with Cloud Hypervisor allows a user of the container to modify the
- 10.0 Critical severity
kata-containers: Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In versions prior to 3.26.0, when a container image is malformed or contains no layers, containerd falls back to