Vulnerability GHSA-6f2p-2qg2-qqch

Low Risk
LOW RISK
CVSS Score: 3.8
Score Range: < 4.0
Low severity vulnerabilities (CVSS < 4.0). Hygiene issues that can accumulate but pose lower immediate risk.
4 months ago
June 26, 2026 at 12:32 AM UTC
KubeVirt downward metrics virtio-serial server vulnerable to unbounded memory consumption
v1.1.0-alpha.0 - v1.10.0-rc.0
v1.1.0-alpha.0 - v1.10.0-rc.0

Summary

KubeVirt downward metrics virtio-serial server vulnerable to unbounded memory consumption

Details

A flaw was found in KubeVirt's downward metrics virtio-serial server. The server reads guest requests using textproto.Reader.ReadLine(), which buffers input indefinitely until a newline character is received, with no length limit or read deadline. A user with access to a VM guest that has the downward metrics virtio-serial device configured can write a continuous byte stream to the device, causing unbounded memory allocation in the virt-handler process until it is OOM-killed.

Timeline

Published
4 months ago
June 26, 2026 at 12:32 AM UTC
Last Modified
3 hours ago
November 04, 2026 at 05:30 PM UTC